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IMPORTANT 


This Record contains, in addition to a history and Index 
of all proposed amendments, an Index to the Stenographic 
Record of Debates printed by the Convention. See Table 
of Contents on page 1; also Note on how to use the Index 
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NEW YORK 

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 

INDEX 


A COMPLETE RECORD 

Of all proposed amendments introduced in the Convention beginning April 6, J9f5 


PUBLISHED BY 

THE LEGISLATIVE INDEX PUBLISHING COMPANY 

83 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. 

Telephone J69 Main 


FROM APRIL 6 TO SEPTEMBER 10, 1915 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Summaries and history of all amendments introduced. 3 

Individual record showing amendments introduced by each Delegate. 90 

Subject index of all amendments introduced. 108 

Printed numbers of all amendments, with corresponding introductory number. 158 

Resolutions. 162 

Committee references, showing numbers of all amendments before each Committee.. 171 

List of Delegates, addresses, etc. 176 

Committees, members of. 179 

Debates, Stenographic Record, Index by names of Delegates. 181 

Debates, Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects. 223 

Table of Votes. 236 

Separate Record of the 33 Amendments passed by the Convention, combining the history of each 

Amendment with Index to Stenographic Record. 243 

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HOW TO USE THE INDEX 


If you know the subject of a proposed amendment and want to find its complete history, consult 
the Subject Index, which will give you the Introductory Number; then turn to that number in the In¬ 
troductory Number Record, where you will find a history of the proposition to the time of issue. 
The last line of that record will give you the Printed No., and where the proposition is amended, all 
the Printed Nos. 

If you know the Printed No. of a proposition and want to find the title and all the facts about 
the proposition, turn to the Printed Number Table, run down the first column of figures until you come 
to the Printed No. you are looking for, and the Introductory No. will be directly opposite in the 
second column of figures. Having the Introductory No., you then turn to that number in the Intro¬ 
ductory Number Record. 

If you have only the name of the Introducer of a proposed amendment and want its history and 
Printed Na, consult the Individual Record, which gives short titles and Introductory Nos. of all prop¬ 
ositions introduced by each delegate. Having the Introductory No., you then turn to that number in 
Introductory Number Record, for complete history of bill. 


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New York Constitutional Convention Index 

Constituting a complete Record and Index of all proposed amendments introduced in the Constitutional Convention, beginning 

April 6, igis 


PUBLISHED BY THE LEGISLATIVE INDEX PUBLISHING CO., 83 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. 


FROM APRIL 6 TO SEPTEMBER 10, 1915 


INTRODUCTORY NUHBER RECORD 


A complete histor of each proposed amendment introduced in the Convention, identified by its respective 

introductory number 


APRIL 27 

No. 1. By Mr. REEVES.— Adding new section 
to article six providing for a probate division of 
the supreme court in each county where there shall 
or may be a surrogate’s court separate from the 
county court. Surrogate’s court power# are trans¬ 
ferred to the probate division. All proceedings 
pending in the former are to be disposed of in the 
latter. Surrogates are to become justices of the 
siiprwme court during the residue of their unex¬ 
pired terms. Supreme court justices may be 
elected (or appointed) specially for the probate 
division, but the appellate division shall have the 
power to designate and transfer justices from and 
to that division. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 1. 


No. 2. By Mr. REEVES.—Adding a new section 
to article six, providing for a land division of the 
supreme court in the first, second and eighth ju¬ 
dicial districts, and any other district as may be 
designated by the appellate division, said land 
division to have exclusive original jurisdiction of 
actions for registration of title to real estate and 
Tther real property actions as may be provided by 
law. Supreme court justices may be elected (or 
appointed) specially for the land division. The 
appellate division shall have the right to desig¬ 
nate and transfer justices from and to that di¬ 
vision. Justices of such division shall remain 
therein during their terms, unless transferred. 
Laws may confer on such division power to super¬ 
vise surveyors and official examiners of title for 
registration. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 2. 


No. 3 . By Mr. J. J. WHITE.— Amending section 
8, article 3, by striking out the prohibition that 
no person shall be eligible to the legislature who 
at the time of his election or within 100 days 
previous thereto has been an officer under any city 
government. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 3. 


No. 4. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Amending section 
4, article 2, by providing that laws shall be made 
regulating nominations and general and special 


elections. Party nominations for elective offices 
to be filled by the voters of the entire state, 
and for all elective judicial offices, except to fill 
vacancies in nominations, shall be made by party 
conventions. It requires registration of voters 
annually. 

To Suffrage Com. 

May 12. Amended and recommitted. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 22. Amended and recommitted. 

July 7. Amended and recommitted. 

July 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 19. Governor and Other State Officers 
Com. reported it was unanimously of opin¬ 
ion that the proposed amendment should 
not be adopted for the reason that a pro¬ 
vision compelling the people or political 
parties to make nominations for political 
offices in a specific way was not a proper 
subject for constitutional provision. Re¬ 
port tabled. 

July 20. Governor and Other State Officers 
Com. report received. 

Printed Nos. 4, 188, 713, 729. 


No. 5. By Mr. PARSONS.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that no person shall be 
compelled in a criminal case to be a witness 
against himself, except that no person holding 
a public office or position shall be excused from 
testifying or producing books and papers in hi# 
possession in any criminal case or any civil action 
or proceeding brought by public authority involve 
ing his official acts, or any investigation by public 
authority concerning any public matter including 
his own conduct. But the failure of any person to 
testify may be considered by a jury and the state 
may compel the production of material papers, 
in the possession of any person. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 5. 


No. 6. By Mr. PARSONS.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 13 to article 7, providin/^ that no proceed# 
of a loan contracted by the state or a county or 
city or other subdivision of the state, which is 
not payable within a year from the time of con¬ 
tracting the same, shall be used for other than 
capital expenditures for objects the probable lif# 
of which is as long as the period to elap8<» befort 










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such indebtedness is payable. This provision shall 
not apply to indebtedness of the character set 
forth in section 3 of this article or to investments 
in any year of the excess of any sinking fund 
revenues or income over the amount estimated 
to be required for redemption at maturity of the 
indebtedness secured by such sinking fund. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705). 

Printed No. 6. 

No. 7. By Mr. OLCOTT.—Amending section 5, 
article 6, by adding at the end thereof a provision 
abolishing the court of general sessions of the 
peace for the city and county of New York to 
take effect on January 1, 1916. All actions then 
pending are to be transferred to the supreme court. 
The judges of the general sessions court in office 
at that time shall be justices of the supreme court 
for the remainder of their terms. Their successors 
shall be elected as supreme court justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 7. 

No. 8. By Mr. UNGER.—Amending section 10, 
article 6, relative to judges not holding other 
office,^ by striking out the provision that all votes 
for any of the judges of the court of appeals and 
justices of the supreme court for any other than 
a judicial office given by the Legislature or the 
people shall be void. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 8. 

No. 9. By Mr. DONNELLY.—Adding a new 
section providing that “ each branch of the Legis¬ 
lature as well as the Governor shall have au¬ 
thority to require the opinions of the Judges of 
the Court of Appeals upon questions of law and 
upon solemn occasions.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 9. 

No. 10. By :Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by permitting the state to cut, 
remove or sell dead or fallen timber or trees, and 
to lease camp sites and construct roads and fire 
trails in the forest preserve; to use such forest 
lands, or to authorize cities and counties to use 
them for purposes of public health. The Legis¬ 
lature may authorize the sale of lands outside the 
limits of the Adirondack and Catskill parks, ex¬ 
cepting state lands adjacent to Lake George. The 
state forests shall be under the care of a commis¬ 
sioner appointed by the Governor for ten years 
and who may be removed by the Governor upon 
reasons and after public hearing. The commis¬ 
sioner shall make all appointments from eligible 
lists resulting from competitive civil service ex¬ 
aminations. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 28. Motion to refer copy to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

June 2. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Conservation Com. bill introduced. 
(See Int. 708.) 

Printed No. 10. 


No. 11. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by providing that no person 
shall be compelled to answer for a capital crime 
unless on presentment or indictment of a grand 
jury, nor for an otherwise infamous crime except 
on information after examination and commit¬ 
ment by a magistrate, or on presentment or in¬ 
dictment by a g^rand jury. No person shall be 
subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same 
offence, save on a new trial after appeal by the 
people upon acquittal upon a question of law 
where the Legislature may allow such appeal, 
and on any appeal in a criminal case the appeF 
late court may affirm or reverse or modify the 
judgment and impose a new sentence more or 
less severe. Nor shall a person be compelled in a 
criminal case to be a witness against himself un¬ 
less the Legislature shall otherwise provide, but 
the failure of a person accused to testify in his 
own behalf may be considered by the jury, and 
the state may compel the production of material 
papers in the possession of the accused in such 
manner as the Legislature may prescribe. Nor 
shall public property be granted to any individual, 
association or corporation, nor shall its use be 
allowed for private purposes without just compen¬ 
sation. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. IL 

No. 12. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 26, article 3, by authorizing the voters of a 
county to abolish the existing board of super¬ 
visors of the county and establish in its place 
county officers-to be known as county supervisors, 
upon the adoption of a proposition therefor at 
a special or regular election, submitted upon pe¬ 
tition signed by not less than fifty per cent of 
the resident taxpayers. The Legislature is to 
regulate the election, powers and duties of such 
supervisors. 

To Count}% Town and Village Officers Com. 

May 4. Reference changed to County, Town 
and Village Government Com. 

August. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See 
Int. 721.) 

Printed No. 12. 


No. 13. By . Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Adding new 
section 10 to article 4, providing that there shall 
• be a budget commission composed of the Gover¬ 
nor, with two votes, the Lieutenant-Governor, the 
State Treasurer and State Comptroller, each with 
one vote, which shall at each legislative session 
submit to the Legislature a budget of the appro¬ 
priations of money for the ensuing fiscal year. 
The Legislature may diminish, but not increase, 
the appropriations for any subject included in 
said budget. The Legislature shall have power to 
make inquiry as to the items of the budget by 
examination of any or all members of the budget 
commission. The Governor shall have no power 
to disapprove the budget or any appropriation of 
money or any item of any appropriation of money 
included in the budget. The budget if approvsd 





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by the Legislature shall become law without the 
Governor’s signature. 

To Finance Com. 

June 4. Referred to Governor and Other* State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed Xo. 13. 

No. 14. By Mr. C. H. YOUXG.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 14, article 6, by striking out the provision 
that additional county judges shall be chosen iii 
Kings county, and providing that all county 
judges shall be chosen at such times or in such 
manner as the Legislature may direct, instead of 
for a term of six years as now provided. County 
courts shall have jurisdiction both in civil and 
criminal cases and original jurisdiction in ac¬ 
tions in which the complaint demands judgment 
for not exceeding $5,000 instead of $2,000, as at 
present. The Legislature may continue the court 
of general sessions in Xew York county or may 
abolish it, in which event it shall direct the trans¬ 
fer of all actions pending therein to the supreme 
court. The general sessions court judges shall 
then become supreme court justices for the trial 
of criminal cases only in New York and Bronx 
county for the remainder of their terms. Their 
successors shall be elected or appointed as supreme 
court justices. 

I’o Judiciary Com. 

Printed Xo, 14, 

No. 15. By Mr. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 6, by giving the supreme court ex¬ 
clusive jurisdiction over claims against the state. 
The Legislature may establish reasonable statutes 
of limitations for claims against the state and 
may fix the venue where actions on such claims 
shall be brought. It may also fix a reasonable 
time within which notice of intention to bring 
action against the state must be filed, and where; 
and may make such filing a prerequisite to the 
bringing of any such action, to be alleged and 
proved as any fact set out in a pleading. It strikes 
out the limitation that judicial districts be altered 
by the Legislature, but once after every state 
census. 

To Judiciarv' Com. 

July 21. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Printed Xo. 15. 

No. 16. By :\rr. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1. by providing that a person in¬ 
dicted by a grand jury shall be entitled to inspect 
the minutes of the evidence of the witnesses sworn 
before the jury which found the indictment. At 
the end of the section there is added “ and every 
person shall have the equal protection of the 
laws.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed X'o. 16. 

No. 17. By INIr. AIKEX.—Amending section 2, 
article 1, by providing that the agreement of three- 
fourths of a jury shall constitute a verdict. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed Xo. 17. 


No. 18. By Mr. AIKEX.—Amending section 18,. 
article 1, by providing that the amount recover¬ 
able in actions for injuries resulting in death 
shall not be subject to statutory limitation “ ex¬ 
cept as provided by laws enacted in the next sec¬ 
tion.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed Xo. 18. 

No. 19. By Mr. AIKEX.—Adding new section 
10 to article 4, authorizing the Governor to at¬ 
tend any session of the Legislature and introduce 
bills, but he shall not vote. The Governor shall 
appoint a board of estimate consisting of such 
heads of departments and members of the Legis¬ 
lature as he may select, and of which he shall be 
chairman. Such board shall each year during the 
regular legislative session prepare and introduce 
a budget and general appropriation bills. The 
amount of the budget shall not be increased by 
the Legislature but may be otherwise amended. 
Xo legislative enactment shall be attached to any 
annual appropriation bill. 

To Finance Com. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

■ 709.) 

Printed Xo. 19. 

No. 20. By Mr. AIKEX.—Adding new section 
to article 6, providing that court of appeals judges 
and supreme court justices may be nominated in 
the same manner as other state officers, but the 
chief judge of the court of appeals shall also make 
nominations for election of court of appeals judges 
and sui)reme court justices, which nomination 
shall be certified by him to the Secretary of State 
prior to tlie holding of nominating primaries, and 
said nomination shall be placed on the electoral 
ticket under a separate column. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed Xo. 20. 

No. 21. By Mr. AIKEX.—Adding new section 
6 to article 6, creating a court of criminal appeal* 
to consist of a chief judge and four associate 
judges designated by the Governor from the su¬ 
preme court justices. The concurrence of three 
members of the court shall be necessary to a de¬ 
cision. All appeals from judges or orders in 
criminal actions in courts of record shall be taken 
direct to said court. The court of appeals and 
appellate division shall be relieved of hearing 
such appeals. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed Xo. 21. 


No. 22. By ]\rr. AIKEN.—Adding new section 
to article 6, providing that the court of appeals 
and supreme court justices shall meet in conven¬ 
tion and adopt rules governing the practice and 
procedure in the courts, such rules to have the 
force of law and supersede all existing statutes 
and rules as to all matters specified in said rules. 
The judges and justices shall meet biennially there¬ 
after or specially at the call of the chief.judge of 
the court of appeals, in a similar conventioL 
To Judiciary Com. 

Printed Xo. 22. 






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No. 23. By Mr. AIKEN.—Amending section 19, 
article 1, providing “ The Legislature may enact 
laws for the payment of compensation, to be fixed 
with or without a jury, for the injury or death of 
employees from accident or occupational disease, 
irrespective of fault, by system of insurance or 
otherwise.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
714.) 

Printed No. 23. 

No. 24. By Mr. BETTS.—Amending section 5, 
article 1, by abolishing capital punishment. 

4 o Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 24. 

No. 25. By Mr. WHIPPLE.—Amending section 
7, article 7, relative to forest preserve, by provid¬ 
ing that the prohibition against lease or sale of 
wild forest lands, shall not prevent the state from 
cutting, removing or selling fallen or dead timber 
or trees, nor from leasing camp sites, nor con¬ 
structing roads and fire trails. The state forests 
shall be under the care of a commissioner ap¬ 
pointed by the Governor and removable by him 
after public hearing. The commissioner shall 
make all appointments from eligible civil service 
lists. Action may be brought in the supreme court 
by any citizen to enforce the provisions of the sec¬ 
tion and to prevent its violation. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 27. Motion to refer also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

June 2. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Conservation Com. bill introduced. 
(See Int. 708.) 

Printed No. 25. ‘ 

No. 26. By Mr. SHEEHAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 2, 4, 7, and 8, of article 6, by providing that 
the chief judge of the court of appeals, instead of 
the Governor, shall designate justices who shall 
constitute the appellate division in each depart¬ 
ment, and providing that the chief judge of the 
court of appeals may fill vacancies in the supreme 
court occurring otherwise than by expiration of 
term. It provides also that the court of appeals 
shall hereafter consist of the chief judge and nine 
associates. The chief judge and four of the as¬ 
sociates are to be chosen by the people, the candi¬ 
dates for such offices to be nominated at judicial 
conventions at which no other nominations shall 
be made or as independent candidates. Five of 
the associate judges shall be appointed by the chief 
judge from among justices selected to the supreme 
court. The chief judge and associate judges shaB 
hold office during good l)ehavior, subject to the 
age restriction. Supreme court judges serving as 
associate judges of the court of appeals by desig¬ 
nation of the Governor on January 1, 1916, shall 
return to the supreme court and the chief judge 
shall appoint three associate judges for full terms. 
Any vacancy in the office of ciiief judge shall be 
filled not by theGovernor with the consent of the 
Senate, .as at present, but by a majority of the 
associate judges of the court of appeals, elected or 
appointed for a full term. If a vacancy occurs 
otherwise than by expiration of term in the office 


of associate judge, the chief judge may appoint a 
justice of the supreme court to fill the vacancy. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 26. 


APRIL 28 

No. 27. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 7, article 1, relating to condemnation pro¬ 
ceedings, by striking out the provision for the ap¬ 
pointment of commissioners in such proceedings, 
so that compensation for taking private property 
for public use shall be ascertained by a jury or by 
the supreme court with or without a jury. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 27. 

No. 28.' By Mr. LOW.— Inserting a new section 
in article 3, prohibiting the Legislature or the 
municipal autliorities of any county, city, town 
or village, from granting any franchise in per¬ 
petuity. The granting of a franchise shall not 
be deemed to confer the right to include in the 
charge for service, any return on the value of the 
franchise or grant itself in excess of a fair re¬ 
turn on the amount expended in construction or 
maintenance. Indeterminate franchises may be 
granted without limit of time upon conditions 
permitting the granting j^ower to resume control 
of the franchise upon terms embodied in the 
original grant. Franchises granted for more 
than twenty-five years shall provide for the peri¬ 
odic readjustment at intervals not less frequent 
than twenty-five years, of the financial terms 
upon which the franchise is to be held. At the 
expiration, the franchise may be regranted to the 
same holders. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June id. Amended and recommitted. 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed Nos. 28, 537. 

No. 29. By Mr. OLCOTT.—Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that United States ma¬ 
rines who have served in time of w'ar shall be en¬ 
titled to preference in civil service appointment, 
promotion and retention. Preferences are to be in 
the following order: 1. All honorably discharged 
soldiers, sailors or marines who served during the 
Civil War. 2. All honorably discharged soldiers, 
sailors or marines who served during the Spanish 
^Var or the Philippine Insurrection. 

'lo Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Sept. 4. Motion to direct Rules Com. to make 
bill and adverse report Special Order, re¬ 
ferred to Rules Com. Later, in reply to 
inquiry, J. L. O’Brian stated that in view 
of Rules Com. opinion that only action 
it could take would be to place bill at 
foot of Calendar of Special Orders and 
limited time would prevent reaching it, 
no action was taken bj" Com. Motion 
to disagree with Rules Com. report adopted. 
Ayes 72, Noes 61. 

Printed No. 29. 

No. 30. By Mr. RICHARDS.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 2 and 6, article 3, by providing that Senators 
elected, in 1916 shall hold office for four-year terms 
and Members of Assembly shall be chosen for two 
years. The Legislature shall meet every two years 








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beginning with 1917. Each Senator shall receive 
$3,500 and each Assemblyman $2,500. It increases 
the allowance of legislators acting in impeach¬ 
ment proceedings from $10 to $25 per day. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 30. 

No. 31. By INlr. BLAUVELT.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 13 to article 7, providing that the moneys 
authorized to be raised by the sale of highway 
bonds pursuant to the law approved by vote of 
the people at the general election in 1912 which 
have been apportioned to certain counties in excess 
of the sums to be determined by the Comptroller 
which are or will be required to construct and 
improve highway's theietofore determined by gen¬ 
eral laws to be constructed and improved in said 
counties, shall be applied by the state commission 
of highways after appropriation by the legisla¬ 
ture to the construction and improvement of 
such routes and ])ortions thereof, as were defined 
by law when said bonds were authorized, and lo¬ 
cated outside of said counties, as it may deem 
expedient. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

Aug. 2. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 5. Amended. 

Aug. 21. Amended. 

Aug. 25. Made Special Order. 

Aug. 26. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 117. Noes 17. 

Printed Nos. 31, 782, 826, 837. 

No. 32. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending section 
2, article 3, by increasing the term of Assembly- 
men from one to two years. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 32. 

No. 33. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 
1, article 14, by providing that no amendment pro¬ 
posed in the Senate or Assembly shall be pasised 
unless it has been printed and upon the desks of 
the members in final form at least five calendar 
legislative days prior to its final passage. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 33. 

No. 34. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Striking out section 
13, article 1, which provides that no lease or grant 
of Agricultural lands for a longer period than 
twelve years in which shall be reserved any rent 
or service shall be valid. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 8. Enacting clause stricken out. Bill 
killed. 

Printed No. 34. 

No. 35. By Mr. MERENESS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 10, article 8, by providing that on a question 
submitted to the voters of a county, town, city or 
village involving the expenditure of money, only 
persons whose names appear upon the last com¬ 
plete assessment roll shall have the right to vote. 

To Suffrage Com. 
printed No. 35. 

No. 36. By Mr. MERENESS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 28, article 3, by providing that extra com¬ 
pensation shall not be granted to any public officer, 
servant, agent or contractor by the Legislature, 
the common council of a city, the board of super¬ 


visors, a town board or board of village trustees; 
nor shall the salary or compensation of a public 
officer be increased or diminished during the term 
of office. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 2. Committee discharged. Action on 
proposition postponed indefinitely. 

Printed No. 36. 

No. 37. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by providing that the Legislature 
may by general laws provide for the leasing of 
forest preserve lands for camp sites, for the con¬ 
struction and maintenance thereon of public high¬ 
ways and trails, and for the forestation thereof. 

To Conservation Com. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 37. 

No. 38. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 2, by providing that all laws creat¬ 
ing boards or officers charged with the duty of 
registering voters, distributing ballots at the polls 
or counting votes at election, shall secure equal 
representation of the two political parties which 
at the general election next preceding cast the 
highest and next highest number of votes “ in the 
state for candidates for Member of Assembly.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 38. 

No. 39. By Mr. LINCOLN.—Amending section 
13, article 6, by providing that the Assembly by a 
vote of a majority of all members elected shall 
have the power to impeach all civil officers of the 
state for wilful and corrupt misconduct in office or 
for taking a false official oath or affirmation. The 
court of appeals judges serving on the court for 
the trial of impeachments shall be those who have 
been elected or appointed. A person who has 
served either singly or as a member of a court, 
committee, commission or other tribunal charged 
with the duty of making a preliminary investiga¬ 
tion of the conduct of an accused officer shall not 
act as a member of the impeachment court. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 39. 

No. 40. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 
3, article 9, by striking out the provision that the 
capital of the common school fund and the capital 
of the literature fund shall be preserved inviolate, 
together with the provision that the revenue of the 
literature fund shall be applied to the support of 
academies, and the sum of $25,000 of the revenues 
of the United States Deposit Fund shall each year 
be appropriated to the capital of the common 
school fund. The revenue of the United State* 
Deposit Fund shall be applied to the support of 
the common schools. 

To Finance C-'om. 

Printed No. 40. 


APRIL 29 

No. 41. By Mr. McKINNEY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 3, by providing that from and in¬ 
cluding January 1, 1917, the Legislative power of 





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the state shall be vested in a Senate to consist of 
sixty members chosen for four years, instead of 
in a Senate and Assembly. Each Senator shall 
receive $5,000 a year. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

June 10. Keported adversely. Consideration 
of report postponed to June 15. 

June. 15. Action postponed to June 24. 

June 24. No action taken. 

Printed No. 41. 


No. 42. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Adding new 
section to article 2, authorizing the Legislature 
to provide for the registration without personal 
appearance of citizens entitled to vote, who are 
federal employees or commercial travelers, or are 
regularly employed on railroad trains, and who 
shall have been absent from the county in which 
they reside on the day or days designated for 
registration. 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 15. Reported amended by substitute bill. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

July 28. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 42, 742. 


No. 43. By Mr. BRENNER.—Amending section 
2, article 1, by providing that in civil cases jurors 
shall be six in number instead of the common law 
jury of twelve. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 43. 


No. 44. By Mr. BRENNER.—Amending section 
18, article 3, by providing that the Legislature 
may provide for the appointment of a commisr 
si oner of jurors in any county. Such act may pro¬ 
vide that the appointment may be made by one or 
more of the judges of the courts of record residing 
in said county, and prescribes the compensation 
and duties of the commissioner and the qualifica¬ 
tions of jurors. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 44. 


No. 45. By Mr. BAYES.—Amending section 2, 
article 1, by authorizing the Legislature to provide 
that in all civil and criminal cases the jury may 
consist of not less than six. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 45. 


No. 46. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 1, reading “All valuation of prop¬ 
erty for purposes of taxation or 'assessment 
throughout the state, and in every subdivision 
thereof, shall be upon a uniform basis; to wit, the 
fair market value thereof.” 

To Taxation Com. ' 

Printed No. 46. 


No. 47. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
2, article 3, by extending the terms of Senators 
and Assemblymen to four and two years, 're¬ 
spectively. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 47. 


No. 48. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
6, article 3, by increasing from $1,500 to $4,000 
the salary of Senators, and from $1,500 to $3,000 
the salary of Assemblymen. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 48. 


No. 49. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
1, article 4, by extending the terms of the Gov¬ 
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor from two to four 
years. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Printed No. 49. 


No. 50. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
4, article 4, by increasing the salary of the Gov¬ 
ernor from $10,000 to $15,000. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Printed No. 50. 


No. 51. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending section 
1, article 2, by striking out.the requirement for 
four month’s residence in the county to enable 
one to qualify to vote. 

To Suffrage Com, 

Aug. 19. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole, 

Printed Nos. 51, 821. 


No. 52. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 14, by providing that constitutional 
amendments passed by the Legislature must be ap¬ 
proved by a majority of all electors voting at the 
election at which they are to be ratified, instead 
of by majority of the electors voting thereon. No 
amendment or amendments shall be submitted 
oftener than once in five years. 

To Future Amendments Com, 

Printed No. 52. 

^ No. 53. By Mr. DUN]\IORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 5, by providing that honorably dis¬ 
charged soldiers in the late Spanish War shall be 
entitled to preference in civil service appointment 
and promotion. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 53. 


^ No. 54. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 3, by providing that the Le^isla- 
ture shall not pass a private or local bill for drain¬ 
ing swamp, low or agricultural lands, instead of 
“ swamps or other lands ”, as at present. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

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No. 55. By R. B. Smith.—Adding two new 
sections to article 1, and amending section 7 of 
said article, by providing that “ the public uses 
for which private property may be taken shall in¬ 
clude the following: the drainage of swamp, low 
or agricultural lands; the regulation of the flow 
of waters and the conservation, distribution and 
utilization of water and water power and resultant 
utilities and the transmission of electricity. 
If private property be taken for drainage 
of swamp, low or agricultural lands, the dam¬ 
age sustained shall be apportioned to or assessed 
against the municipality, persons or property to 
be benefited.” Article 1 is further amended by add¬ 
ing a new section reading: “Private roads may 
be opened in a manner to be prescribed by law; 
but in every case the necessity of the road and the 
amount of all damages to be sustained by the open¬ 
ing thereof, shall be first determined by a jury of 
freeholders, and such amount, together with the 
expenses of tlie proceedings shall be paid by the 
person to be benefited.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 3. Amended and recommitted. Referred 
to Conservation Com. for opinion. 

Printed Nos. 55, 407. 


No. 56. By :Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 6, providing that the court of 
claims shall consist of the three judges now in 
office, who shall hold office until the last day of 
December next succeeding the expiration of their 
present respective terms, and their successors, who 
shall be chosen by the electors of the state. The 
terms of the judges shall be nine years. Two mem¬ 
bers of the court shall form a quorum. Each judge 
shall receive $8,000 a year. Vacancies are to be 
filled for the full term at the next general election 
happening not less than three months after the 
vacancy occurs. Until the vacancy is so filled, the 
Governor may fill the vacancy by appointment. 
The Governor shall designate one of the judges as 
presiding judge. The court of claims shall have 
the powers and duties it now possesses until other¬ 
wise provided by the Legislature. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 56. 

No. 57. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 1, 
article 10, liy striking out the provision that 
sheriffs may not succeed themselves in office. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

May 4, Reference changed to County, Town 
and Village Officers Com. 

July 28. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 11. Recommitted. 

Aug. 12. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

717.) 

Printed No, 57. 

No. 58. By ^Ir. BUXBAUM.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 19 to article 3. the succeeding sections to be 
renumbered accordingly, reading “ The Legislature 
shall not delegate any of its powers to any person 
or persons, or to any corporation other than a 
municipal corporation,” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 58. 


No. 59. By Mr. BUXBAUIM.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by providing “ except for a con¬ 
tempt, no person shall be arrested or imprisoned 
in any civil action or proceeding except upon an 
order of a court of competent jurisdiction in an 
action to recover damages for the wilful injury 
to person, character or property. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No, 59. 


MAY 4 

No. 60. By jMr, COLES.— Adding a new section 
to article 10 authorizing the legislature to confer 
upon registers, or in counties having no registers 
upon county clerks as registrars of titles, such 
judicial powers as shall be necessary to the de¬ 
termination, settlement, validation, certification 
and registration of titles to real property. Such 
action of registrars shall be based upon reports of 
official examiners of titles, of whom one or more 
may be appointed by the register or county clerk, 
and who may be deputies or assistant deputies 
therein and who shall be attorneys-at-law. The 
determination and registration of titles and acts 
of registrars and examiners shall be subject to 
review by the supreme court. The legislature 
may provide for assurance funds to be formed by 
the state or by any subdivision thereof or by 
fees from registering owners to protect persons 
injuriously affected by the acts of registrars. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 60. 


No. 61. By Mr. FRANK.— Amending section 
14, article 6, providing that additional county 
judges whose offices may be created by the legis¬ 
lature shall be chosen for a full term at the next 
general election held in an odd-numbered year not 
less than three months after the creation' of such 
office, and until so filled the governor may fill 
such office by appointment, which shall continue 
until December 31st next after the election at 
whi’ch the office shall be filled. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 61. 


No. 62. By IMr. ADAIMS.—Amending section 
14, article 6, by abolishing the county court of 
Kings county after January 1, 1916, and trans¬ 
ferring all actions and proceedings pending therein 
to the supreme court. The county judges of 
Kings county shall be supreme court justices for 
the remainder of their terms. Their successors 
shall be elected as supreme court justices. Ap¬ 
peals from inferior and local courts now heard 
in the county court shall be heard in the supreme 
court. 

To Judicial^” Cora. 

Printed No. 62. 


No. 63. By ]Mr. BUXBAUM.— Adding new sec¬ 
tions 5. 6 and 7 to article 13, relative to bribery, 
corruption and fraud, by providing that all en- 





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actments, laws, ordinances, rules, contracts, fran¬ 
chises, licenses, employments, etc., rewards, fees 
and salaries, whether from the state or any civil 
divisions, or of any legislative body, board, court, 
department, etc,, obtained by bribery, corruption, 
coercion, deceit, fraud, impersonation, threat, vio¬ 
lence or other unlawful means, shall be invalid 
and of absolutely no effect in law or otherwise. 
The legislature shall enact necessary laws gov¬ 
erning practice and procedure in the courts appro¬ 
priate to the article. No person shall be incom¬ 
petent to testify in any action or proceeding 
brought pursuant to this article by reason of 
being a participant or accomplice. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 63. 

No. 64. By Mr. fSTEINBRINK.— Amending 
section 4, article 6, by authorizing the governor, 
witli the advice of the senate, in the fourteenth 
year of the term of any supreme court justice, 
to designate such justice to continue for fourteen 
years, but not beyond the age of seventy years. 
If he fails to make such designation, the successor 
of such justice shall be elected at the next ensuing 
election. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 64. 

No. 65. By Mr. STEINBEINK.— Amending 
section 1, article 6, by striking out the provision 
that the legislature may from time to time in¬ 
crease the number of justices in any judicial dis¬ 
trict except that the number in the first and 
second district, or any of the districts into which 
the second district may be divided, shall not be 
increased to exceed one justice for each 80,000 or 
fraction over 40,000 of population thereof, and 
except that the number in any other district shall 
not be increased to exceed one justice for each 
60,000 or fraction over 35,000 of population. The 
provision that the legislature may erect out of 
the second district another judicial district is 
also stricken out. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 65. 

No. 66. By Mr. STEINBEINK.— Amending 
section 12, article 6, by increasing from $10,000 
to $12,000 per year the amount which each jus¬ 
tice of the supreme court shall receive from the 
state for salary. A justice elected in the third 
or fourth department, assigned by the appellate 
division or designated by the governor to hold 
special term in a judicial district other than 
that in which he is elected shall receive $20 per 
day while actually so engaged, instead of $10, as 
at present. In no event shall the compensation 
paid any supreme court justice exceed $17,500 a 
year. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 66. 

No. 67. By Mr. LINDE.— Amending section 1, 
article 9, by providing that the education of chil¬ 
dren in the state shall be forever a function of 
the state and under the control of the state. 

To Education Com. 

July 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See 
Int. 698.) 

Printed No. 67. 


No. 68. By Mr. WAGNEE.—Amending sections 
1-3, article 12, and adding new section to article 1, 
in relation to guaranteeing to cities the right to 
municipal self-government, and relative to legis¬ 
lation for the protection of employees of the state 
and of counties, cities, towns and villages. 

To Cities Com. 

June 25. Amended and recommitted. 

Ausr. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Printed Nos. 68, 719. 

No. 69. By Mr. GEIFFIN.— Adding a new 
section 11 to article 3, providing that the politi¬ 
cal year and legislative term shall begin on Janu¬ 
ary 1. The legislature shall assemble on the first 
Wednesday in January and shall not adjourn 
until action has been taken on all bills intro¬ 
duced. The senate and assembly shall fix a day 
beyond wdiich no bill may be introduced except 
when accompanied by an emergency message from 
the governor. Tlie remaining sections of article 3 
are renumbered. Article 10 is amended by 
striking out the whole of section 6 and renum¬ 
bering tlie remaining sections. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 69. 

No. 70. By INIr. GEIFFIN.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, providing that the legislature 
shall not pass any bill, granting, permitting or 
delegating to private persons, associations or cor¬ 
porations, the right to prosecute, enforce, collect 
or receive any fines or penalties imposed by law. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 70. 

No. 71. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 7 and 7-a, article 7, by permitting the state 
to cut or sell dead or fallen timber in the forest 
preserve, and to lease camp sites and construct 
roads and fire trails therein, and to authorize 
cities, and counties, to use forest preserve lands 
for public health purposes. The legislature may 
authorize the sale of lands outside the Adiron¬ 
dack and Catskill parks except lands adjacent to 
Lake George. The forests of the state are to bo 
under the management of a commissioner ap¬ 
pointed by the governor for ten years and remov¬ 
able by him after public hearing. All appoint¬ 
ments by the commissioner must be made from 
competitive civil service lists. Action may be 
brought in the supreme court to enforce the pro¬ 
visions of this section. The use of private lands 
for the construction and maintenance of reser¬ 
voirs for municipal water supply, for the canals, 
and for the regulation of the flow of streams, is a 
public use for which private lands may be taken 
by the state upon just compensation. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 28. Motion to refer also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

June 2. Eeferred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 71. 

No. 72. By INIr. BAEEETT.—Amending section 
18, article 6, by providing that in the establish¬ 
ment of inferior local courts of civil and criminal 





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jurisdiction, the legislature may provide for dis¬ 
tricts not bounded by town, city or village lines. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed Ko. 72. 

No. 73. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending section 
1, article 5, by providing that the state highway 
commissioner, instead of being appointed by the 
governor, as at present, shall be chosen at a gen¬ 
eral election, and shaP. hold office for two years. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 73. 


No. 71. By Air. WIGGINS.—Amending section 
2, article 4, by providing that no person shall be 
eligible to the office of governor and lieutenant- 
governor unless he has been a resident of the state 
ten years next preceding his election, instead of 
five years, as at present. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Alay 7. Committee discharged. Proposition 
referred to Gov. and Other State Officers. 
Com. 

Printed No. 74. 

No. 75. By Air. WIGGINS.—Amending section 
2, article 5, by providing that the first election 
of state highway commissioner shall be held in 
1916, his successor to be elected in the year 1918, 
and every two years thereafter. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 75, 

No. 76. By Mr. QUIGG.—Amending section 6, 
article 1, by providing that no person shall De 
compelled in any criminal case to be a witness 
against himself, except that no person holding a 
public office or position shall be excused from 
testifying or from producing books and papers 
in his possession in any criminal case in which 
he is a defendant as to his official acts, or any 
investigation held by public authority concerning 
his official conduct. The refusal of any person to 
testify or produce such papers shall be considered 
by the jury, and the state may compel the pro¬ 
duction of "material papers in the possession of 
any person. 

To Bill of Eights Com. 

Printed No. 76. 


No. 77. By Air. S. K. PHILLIPS.—Amending 
section 9, article 4, by providing that members of 
a duly organized volunteer fire company honorably 
discharged after five years’ consecutive service, 
and members of such a company which shall 
have been disbanded by the installation of a paid 
fire department for at least one year prior to such 
disbandment, as well as Civil war veterans, shall 
be entitled to preference in civil service appoint¬ 
ment, retention and promotion and shall not be 
removed except for incompetency or misconduct 
proven on a hearing on notice and on stated 
charges. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 77. 


No. 78. By Air, AUSTIN.—Amending section 
15, article 3, by striking out the authorization 
for the passage of bills in the legislature under 
emergency messages from the governor. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Alay 27. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Cora, for opinion. 

Alay 28. Amended and recommitted. 

June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 19. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 127, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 78, 376, 746. 


No. 79. By Air. AUSTIN—Amending section 
21, article 3, by providing that no money shall be 
paid out of the state treasury or any of the state 
funds unless such pajanent be made within two 
years after “ the first day of October following 
the passage of such appropriation act.” No ap¬ 
propriation shall be continued or revived except 
for its original object. 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 79. 


No. 80. By Air. BRACKETT.—Adding new 
section to article 5, providing for the election 
of a superintendent of insurance for a term of 
five years. He shall not be directly or indirectly 
interested in any insurance corporation, except 
as an ordinary policyholder. His salary shall be 
fixed by law. He shall have all the powers and 
perform all the duties heretofore performed by 
the superintendent of insurance. The governor 
may remove him for cause at any time. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Printed No. 80. 


No. 81. By Air. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 5, by providing that the superin¬ 
tendent of public works shall be elected by the 
people for five year terms, and may be removed 
from office by the governor, but before such re¬ 
moval. he shall be given a copy of the charges 
against him and an opportunity to be heard in 
his defense. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 81. 


No. 82. By Mr. BRACKETT.—Adding a new 
section to the constitution, creating a board of 
pardon and parole, to which shall be referred all 
applications for pardon, commutation or parole. 
The board shall have exclusive and final jurisdic¬ 
tion to pass upon the same. It shall consist of 
five members named by the governor, with the 
consent of the senate, for five year terms, so 
arranged that the term of one member shall expire 
each year. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 82. 

No, 83. By Air. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 5, by providing that the superin¬ 
tendent of state prisons shall be elected by the 
people. He may be suspended from office by the 
governor during the pendency of any charges 




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against him until the investigation of such charges 
and a decision thereon. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 83. 

No. 84. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by permitting the state to cut, 
remove and sell timber in the forest preserve, 
which is dead, fallen or matured or which is 
detrimental to forest growth, under regulations 
recommended to the governor by the University 
of the state and to be in effect when approved 
by the governor after opportunity for public 
hearing; and permitling the state to construct 
roads and trails to protect the forests against 
fire and to sell lands outside the Adirondack and 
Catskill parks, except non-arable lands adjacent 
to Lake George. Whenever the forest preserve 
exceeds 2,500,000 acres, any surplus of revenues 
therefrom over the sums required for reforestation 
and protection against fire, shall be devoted to 
the purposes of the State University. The Legis¬ 
lature may provide for the regulation of the cut¬ 
ting of timber on all privately owned non-arable 
lands in the forest preserve. 

To Conservation Com. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 84. 

No. 85. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5, by providing that the comp¬ 
troller and attorney-general shall be elected for 
four years instead oLtwo years, as at present. 
The secretary of state, treasurer and state engi¬ 
neer and surveyor are abolished. Secretaries for 
charities, commerce and labor, defense, finance, 
interior, public works, and state, are to be ap¬ 
pointed by the governor, with the consent of the 
senate, for the same term for which the governor 
is elected. These officers, together with the super¬ 
intendent of public instruction, shall be the official 
advisers of the governor. Each such officer may 
be suspended or removed by the governor when¬ 
ever in his judgment the public interest so re¬ 
quires. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 15. Eeferred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Military Affairs Com. 
for opinion. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 85. 

No. 86. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2. article 5, by providing that the legislature 
shall create by law department of law headed by 
the attorney-general, to have charge of law work; 
of charities, to have supervision over the care of 
the insane, inebriate, poor, pensioners, deaf, dumb 
and blind; of commerce and labor, to have super¬ 
vision over labor, manufactures, agriculture and 
public utilities, and in which there shall be a 
bureau of research; of defense, to have super¬ 
vision ox^er military and naval forces; of finance, 
to have charge of the state finances, taxation and 
retrenchment, civil service, and supervision over 
banking and insurance, and as officers in which 
there shall be a state treasurer and a comptroller. 


who shall perform such duties as are now pro¬ 
vided by law; of interior, to have charge of the 
forests, parks, fish and game, waters and water 
supply, and public health; of public works, to 
have charge of canals, highways, public buildings, 
and in which there shall be as officers thereof a 
state engineer and surveyor and a state archi¬ 
tect ; of records, to have charge of records of the 
state and records of and appointment of clerks 
for each department of government, the state 
census, elections and»state printing. The heads of 
said divisions or bureaus in any department shall 
be named by the governor with the consent of 
the senate. This section shall be in force January 
1, 1917. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 16. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Military Affairs Com. 
for opinion. 

Printed No. 86. 


No. 87. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 4, by increasing the term of the 
governor and lieutenant-governor from two to four 
years. This section shall apply to the terms of 
the governor and lieutenant-governor chosen in 
1918. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 87. 

No. 88. By Mr. LEGGETT.—Amending section 
1, article 13, by striking out of the official oath 
the provision that the official shall swear that he 
has not paid, offered or promised to pay, etc., any 
money or valuable thing as a consideration or 
reward for giving or withholding a vote at the 
election at which he was elected and has made no 
promise to influence the giving or withholding of 
any such vote. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

July 9. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 27. Enacting clause stricken out (killed). 

Printed No. 88. 


No. 89. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 9, 
article 10, by providing that no state or county 
officers excepting official stenographers of the 
courts of the state, shall receive to their use any 
fees or perquisites of office or any other compen¬ 
sation, except a fixed salary prescribed by law. 

To Countv. Town and Village Officers Com. 

Printed No. 89. 


No. 90. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 11, 
article 8. by providing that the documents, books 
and papers of the state board of charities or any 
officer thereof relative to the visitation and inspec¬ 
tion or investigation of a charitable, eleemosy¬ 
nary, correctional or reformatory institution shall 
be public records and subject to the inspection of 
anV person connected vdth such institution in an 
official capacity. 

To Charities Com. 

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No. 91. By Mr. NIXON.—Adding new section 
to article 2, reading: “The Legislature shall 
provide for the registration without personal ap¬ 
pearance of citizens entitled to vote, who are 
federal employees or commercial travelers, or 
are regularly employed on railroad trains, and 
who shall have been absent from the county in 
which they reside on the day or days designated 
for registration.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 15. Beported amended by substitute bill. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

July 28. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 91, 742. 


x'lo. 92. By ]Mr. NIXON.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, reading “ No tax exemption on 
real estate shall be granted to any church, society 
or school under church diiection or ownership, 
nor to any cemetery association, or public or pri¬ 
vate institution of any character, not owned by 
the federal, state, county or municipal govern¬ 
ment, but all such property shall be taxed pro¬ 
portionately to its assessed valuation, the said 
tax to be applied to the general fund of the city, 
county or state by which it is levied. The legis¬ 
lature shall enact such statutes as are necessary 
for the enforcement of the foregoing provisions.” 

To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 92. 


No. 93. By Mr. STANDART.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 2 and 6, article 3, by increasing from two 
to four years the terms of senators and from one 
to two years the term of assemblymen. The legis¬ 
lature shall meet every two years, beginning with 
1917, except that in January, 1918, and in Janu¬ 
ary alternating thereafter, for a period of not 
exceeding thirty days for the purpose only of 
making necessary annual appropriations. The an¬ 
nual^ salary of each member of the legislature is 
increased from $1,500 to $3,000, and the allowance 
for members of assembly appointed managers of 
an impeachment from $10 to $20 a day. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 93. 


No. 94. By Mr. STANDART.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 14, by providing that three-fifths 
of the people voting at an election when a con¬ 
stitutional amendment is submitted shall express 
a choice with respect thereto, and a majority of 
such electors so voting must approve the amend¬ 
ment to make it a part of the constitution. At 
present only a majority of those voting upon the 
proposed amendment is required. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 94. 


No. 95. By IMr. WESTWOOD.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 1, providing that “ suits may be 
brought against the state as against an individual, 
exclusively in the supreme court, in such manner. 


and within such limit of time as may be provided 
by law.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

July 21. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 
Printed No. 95. 


MAY 5 

No. 96. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
6, article 3, by increasing from $1,500 to $3,000 
the salary of each member of the legislature. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 96. 


No. 97. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
7, article 1, by providing that the compensation 
for taking private property shall be ascertained 
by the supreme court without a jury, instead of 
by a jury or by the supreme court with or with¬ 
out a jury. The provision for the appointment of 
condemnation commissioners is stricken out. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 97. 


No. 98. By Mr. FOLEY.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, providing for five members for 
each of the public service commissions, first and 
second districts, to be appointed by the governor 
with the consent of the senate, for a term of five 
years. The terms are to be so arranged that one 
member shall go out of office annually on Febru¬ 
ary 1. Any commissioner may be removed from 
office by the senate on the recommendation of the 
governor if two-thirds of all the members elected 
to the senate concur. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 23. Amended and recommitted. 

Julv 28. Substitute bill introduced (See Int. 

" 706.) 

Printed Nos. 98, 715. 


No. 99. By Mr. WAGNER.—Amending section 
12, article 7, by providing that the payment of 
the annual interest on the highway improvement 
debt and the creation of a sinking fund to dis¬ 
charge the principal at maturity shall be provided 
by general laws, such sinking fund to contain at 
the end of each year of the life of any bond issued 
under the section, one-fiftieth of the face value of 
such bond for each year it has been in force. 
.Any surplus heretofore or hereafter provided for 
the payment of such bonds above the amount re¬ 
quired for the sinking fund shall be used to 
reduce the annual contributions to such fund or 
to reduce the amount of interest to be paid on 
such bonds. 

J .0 Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed No. 99. 






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No. 100. By Mr. WAGNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 7, by providing that except debts 
specified in sections 2 and 3, no state debt shall 
hereafter be contracted unless the law provides a 
sinking fund sufficient to discharge the principal 
of the debt when it becomes due. Such fund shall 
be provided for each year so that the ratio of 
the amount in the sinking fund at the end of each 
year for the payment of each bond at maturity to 
the face value of such bond shall be equal to the 
ratio of the number of years elapsed since the 
issue of such bond to the total number of years 
for which it was issued. Any surplus above the 
amount required to provide the sinking fund 
which has been raised by taxation, or provided 
in any other manner, shall be raised in the future 
for the payment of such bonds, shall be used to 
reduce the contribution to the sinking fund or 
the amount required to pay the interest on the 
bonds. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced, (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed No. 100. 


No. 101. By Mr. EISNER,—Amending section 
8, article 1, by prohibiting the censorship of mo¬ 
tion pictures by providing that no law shall be 
passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of the 
motion picture screen. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 101. 


No. 102. By Mr. UNGER.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 2 to article 9, providing that there shall be 
created and maintained by the legislature a free 
public college and university wherein the gradu¬ 
ates of the state’s common schools may receive a 
higher education. 

To Education Com. 

Printed No. 102. 


No. 103. By Mr. VANDERLYN.—Amending 
section 1, article 9, by requiring the legislature 
to provide for the maintenance and support of a 
free common school system “ wherein the benefits 
and advantages afforded to children residing in 
different localities shall be the same in so far 
as possible; and shall provide for a systematized 
and improved condition of schools in the rural 
districts of the state,” 

To Education Com. 

Printed No. 103. 


No. 104. By Mr. TIERNEY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 20, article 6, by prohibiting the judges of 
the court of appeals, supreme court, county courts 
or surrogates’ courts from practicing law or act¬ 
ing as a referee in any county of the state, in¬ 
stead of in a county having a population of more 
than 120,000. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 104. 


No. 105, By Mr. TIERNEY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 2, by providing that “ Party nomi¬ 
nations for elective offices to be filled by the 
voters of the entire state and for all elective 
judicial, congressional, senatorial, assembly, city, 
borough and county offices, except to fill vacancies 
in nominations, shall be made by party conven¬ 
tions. Voters, shall be registered annually.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 15. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Printed Nos. 105, 745. 

No. 106. By Mr. E. N. SMITPI.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 6, by providing that any inferior 
local court shall in civil actions acquire jurisdic¬ 
tion of the person over any person or corporation 
when the mandate or process of the court shall 
have been duly served within the county wherein 
the court is established, A magistrate shall have 
jurisdiction to issue warrants and hold prelimi¬ 
nary examinations in all cases of felonies alleged 
to have been committed within the county. Said 
court shall also have jurisdiction to determine 
charges of misdemeanor committed within the 
limits of the city in which the court is estab¬ 
lished, and upon conviction the right to impose 
the punishment prescribed by the legislature. 

Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. lOfi. 

No, 107. By Mr. BOCKES.—Amending section 
18, article 6, by authorizing the legislature to 
confer on any inferior or local court territorial 
jurisdiction equal to that of a justice of the 
peace. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 107. 

No. 108. By Mr. BOCKES.—Amending section 
10, article 8, by permitting a county, city, to^^^l 
or village to become directly or indirectly the 
owner, by gift, of stock or bonds of any associa¬ 
tion or corporation. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

Printed No. 108. 

No. 109. By Mr. BOCKES.—Amending section 

1, article 5, by providing that the commissioner 
of agriculture shall be chosen at a general elec¬ 
tion instead of being appointed by the governor, 
as at present. The terms of the secretary of state, 
comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general, state en¬ 
gineer and surveyor, and commissioner of agricul¬ 
ture are made four years, instead of two. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 109. 

No. 110 . By Mr. BOCKES.—Repealing section 

2, article 5, relative to the election every two 
years of the secretary of state, comptroller, treas¬ 
urer, attorney-general and state engineer and sur¬ 
veyor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716,' 

Printed No. 110. 




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No. 111. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 3, article 10, by providing that “ the 
office of every state officer who receives remunera¬ 
tion for ofiicial service from the state and is ap¬ 
pointed by the governor, or by the governor by 
and with the advice and consent of the senate, 
shall be held during the pleasure of the governor 
unless the duration of such office be provided by 
this constitution.” 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed Xo. 111. 

No. 112. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 3, by providing that upon the 
final passage of a bill in either house of the 
legislature three-fifths of all the members elected 
thereto shall be necessary to constitute a quorum 
and after the last reading of the bill shall have 
been completed, the question upon its final pas¬ 
sage shall be taken immediately by yeas and nays, 
which shall be duly entered on the journal. Sec¬ 
tion 25 of article 3 relative to final passage of 
bills imposing or reviving a tax or creating a 
debt or charge, or continuing or reviving any ap¬ 
propriation of public or trust money or property, 
or discharging any claim or demand of the state, 
is repealfcu. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 112. 

No. 113. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 2, by providing that all elections by 
the citizens shall be by “ paper ” ballot and 
secrecy in voting such ballot shall be preserved. 
At present elections except for town officers shall 
be by ballot or by such other method as may be 
prescribed by law. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 113. 

No. 114. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 
17, article 6, by providing that after January 1, 
1917, no justices of the peace of any town shall 
exercise any judicial function in any civil, crimi¬ 
nal or quasi-criminal matter of which such jus¬ 
tices now have jurisdiction. From the justices of 
the peace qlected in each county, the board of 
supervisors shall select such number as may be 
necessary in such manner as the legislature may 
direct to exercise the judicial functions hereto¬ 
fore exercised by justices of the peace. They shall 
be known as masters of the county court and shall 
have such jurisdiction and powers, and receive 
such compensation, as the legislature may pre¬ 
scribe. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 114. 


No. 115. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amenaing section 
26, article 3, by providing that in all counties 
where boards of supervisors exist, or may be con¬ 
tinued. such boards shall only have such local 
legislative pov/ers as now possessed by them and 
as the legislature may from time to time confer. 
Such boards shall not contract, purchase or pro¬ 
cure for and in behalf of the counties, or any of 


the officers thereof, any property, goods,- wares 
and merchandise of any character. All contracts 
for, and the purchase of, such property shall be 
made by a county comptroller to be elected for 
six years, in counties where boards of supervisors 
exist. The legislature shall pass necessary laws 
to carry the provisions of this section into effect. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

• Printed No. 115. 


No. 116. By Mr. WESTWOOD.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 1, by permitting five-sixths of a jury 
to render a verdict in civil cases, and permitting 
defendants in criminal cases not punishable by 
death to waive a jury. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 3. Amended and recommitted. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
. opinion. 

Printed Nos. 116, 408. 


MAY 6 

No. 117. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that except for a con¬ 
tempt, no person shall be arrested or imprisoned 
in any civil action or proceeding. 

To Judiciary Com. 

I June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 117. 


No. 118. By Mr. BAYES.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 7 to article 1 reading “ Capital punishment 
shall be forever abolished in this state and pun¬ 
ishment by imprisonment for life substituted 
therefor.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 118. 

No. 119. By Mr. NEWBURGER.—Adding a 
new section 24 to article 6, providing for a land 
registration court, for the purpose of registering 
real property titles under the provisions of the 
Torrens land title registration law. The land 
registration court shall have the shme jurisdiction 
and powers as are now possessed by the supreme 
court relative to real property, ejectment and 
partition actions and actions for determining 
title to real property. The legislature shall also 
provide for a presiding justice in each of the 
judicial departments, whose term shall be for not 
less than ten years at a salary of not less than 
$1U,000 a year. The governor shall appoint each 
of the justices of the court, with the consent of 
the senate. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 119. 

No. 120. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 3, by prohibiting the passage in 
the legislature of any bill for the levying of a 
direct state tax unless it has received the assent 
of senators rep-'.'*f nting districts in which the 







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assessed, valuation of taxable property, based on 
the latest equalized valuations for state tax pur¬ 
poses, shall be at least 40 per cent, of the total 
assessed valuation of such property in the state. 
The legislature shall provide for ascertaining the 
proportional valuation of taxable property within 
any senatorial district in which the valuation is 
not shown, or cannot be computed, from the last 
equalization of valuations between counties or 
other political units made for purposes of levying 
a state tax. 

To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 120. 


No. 121. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by adding a new subdivision 7-a, 
creating a fish and game commission of three 
members appointed by the governor with the con¬ 
sent of the senate, for five year.s, at a salary to be 
fixed by the legislature. Not more than two com¬ 
missioners shall be appointed from the same po¬ 
litical party. The commission shall have charge 
of the protection and propagation of wild animals 
fish, shell-fish and birds. The commission is em¬ 
powered to enact, repeal and amend laws relative 
to these subjects, all such laws to have the ap¬ 
proval* of the governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

J\Iay 28. Also referred to Conservation Com. 

' Printed No^. 121. 

No. 122. By Mr. MARSHALL.—^Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 8, by providing that “All stock cor¬ 
porations shall hereafter elect all of their direct¬ 
ors annually, and each stockholder shall have the 
right, in person or by proxy, to vote his shares 
cumulatively or distributively.” 

To Corporations Com. 

July 29. Com. reported no amendment should 
be made to Constitution on the subject. 
Report agreed to. Motion to reconsider 
vote agreeing with report, tabled. 

Printed No. 122. 

No. 123. By Mr. C. NICOLL.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 6, by providing for the appointment 
of justices of the supreme court by the governor 
with the consent of the senate, instead of their 
election as at present. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 123. 

No. 124.^ By Mr. C. NICOLL.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 6, by provid'ng that the official 
fourteen-year terms of the supreme court justices 
shall begin from the first day of January next 
after their appointment. Vacancies shall be filled 
for a full term by appointment by the governor 
with the consent of the senate, instead of by 
election. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 124. 


No. 125. By Mr. C. NICGYX.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5, by providing that the secretary 
of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general 
and state engineer and surveyor shall be appointed 
by the governor with the consent of the senate, in¬ 
stead of being elected as at present; and they 


shall hold office during the pleasure of the gov¬ 
ernor, instead of for two years. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 125. 

No. 126. By Mr. WAGNER.—Amending section 
1, article 7, by adding at the end thereof this new 
matter: “ Nor shall any lands, buildings or other 
property wliatever now owned or hereafter ac¬ 
quired by the state, be subject to taxation by any 
county, town or other political subdivision of the 
state.'’ 

To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 126. 

No. 127. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 2, reading: “ The Legislature shall 
provide for the registration without personal ap¬ 
pearance of citizens entitled to vote, who are 
federal employees or commercial travelers, or are 
regularly employed on railroad trains, and who 
shall have been absent from the county in which 
they reside on the day or days designated for 
registration.” 

To SufiTage Com. 

July 15. Reported amended by substitute bill. 
To Com. of the Whole. 

July 28. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 127, 742. 

No. 128. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 
7, article 7, by authorizing the legislature to pro¬ 
vide for the sale of lands within the forest pre¬ 
serve, but without the limits of the Adirondack 
and Catskill parks, provided said lands are not 
contiguous, nor a part of lands contiguous, to 
other lands owned by the state within either of 
said parks and are not adjacent to Lake George. 
The proceeds of the sale shall be used for the 
purchase of lands within said parks. The legis¬ 
lature shall, by law, provide for the regulation 
and supervision of all cutting of timber not 
owned by the state within the Adirondack and 
Catskill parks, growing at a heigkt 'f 1,000 feet 
or more above sea leveL 

To Conservation Com. 

IMay IS. Amended and recommitted. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed Nos. 128, 247. 

No. 129. By jMr. AUSTIN.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 10 to article 5, providing for the appointment 
by the governor of a conservation commissioner, 
with the consent of the senate, to hold office for 
four years. He shall give such security as shall 
be required by law and shall be charged with the 
execution and enforcement of all laws relating to 
forests, the protection and propagation of fish 
and game, including shell-fish, and the conserva¬ 
tion of the water supply. He may be removed by 
the governor for cause at any time. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 28. ^Motion to refer also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

June 2. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bilk introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 129. 






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No. 130. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
sections 7 and 8, article 3, by providing that no 
legislator shall receive any civil or military ap¬ 
pointment except notary public, from the gov¬ 
ernor, the governor and the senate or from the 
legislature during his term. No person shall be 
eligible to the legislature who at the time of his 
election is, or within 75 days previous thereto, 
instead of 100 days as at present, shall have been 
a member of congress or shall have held any 
civil or military office under the government of 
the United State or of this state, except notary 
public, or under any county or city government 
except commissioner of deeds. A new section 3 
is added providing that if any person shall after 
his election as a legislator and before the expira¬ 
tion of his term be elected or appointed to any 
of the above offices, his acceptance thereof shall 
create a vacancy in the office of member of the 
legislature to which he shall have been elected. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 130. 

No. 131. By Mr. FBANCHOT.— Amending ar¬ 
ticle 5, section 8, by providing that the provision 
which prohibits the creation of offices for weigh¬ 
ing, gauging, measuring, culling or inspecting any 
merchandise, produce, manufacture or commodity, 
shall not prevent the creation of any office for the 
non-compulsory inspection and grading of food 
products. 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com.’for opinion. 

June 29. Amended and recommitted. 

July 27. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 9. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. To third read¬ 
ing. 

Sept. 2. Amended in revision. 

Sept. 3. Lost. Ayes 83, Noes 58. (86 votes 

necessarv to pass a bill.) 

' Printed Nos. 131, 725, 766, 790, 860. 


MAY 7 

No. 132. By Mr. WEED.— Amending section 2, 
article 1, by providing that a jury trial in all 
civil cases may be modified, limited, or dispensed 
with, in the manner to be prescribed by general 
law. At present a jury trial may be waived by 
the parties. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 132. 

No. 133. By ]Mr. HARAWITZ.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 3, by increasing from $1,500 to 
$3,500 the annual salary of a senator and from 
$1,500 to $3,000 the annual salary of an assembly- 
man. The members of either house shall receive 
3 cents for each mile they travel to and from 
their place of meeting, once in each week of actual 
attendance of the session. Members now^ receive 
$1 for every 10 miles traveled, once in each 
session. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 133. 


No. 134. By Mr. DOOLING.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5, by providing for the election of a 
commissioner of labor and industries in 1916. The 
terms of ollice of the secretary of state, comptrol¬ 
ler, treasurer, attorney-general and state engineer 
and surveyor together with the commissioner of 
labor and industries is made 4 years. 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 134. 

No. 135. By Mr. LOW.— Amending article 2 
by adding a new section reading: “The legis¬ 
lature may provide that the election of the mem¬ 
bers of the legislature, either or both houses, or 
of any constitutional convention hereafter to l>e 
lield, or of any elective body or board of the stale 
or of any political subdivision thereof, shall bo 
by any plan embodying tlie principle known as 
proportional representation; and may provide for 
preferential voting for the election of any office 
holder to be chosen by the electors of the whole 
state, or of any political subdivision thereof; any¬ 
thing in this constitution to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 135. 

No. 136. By JNIr. UNGER.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that appointments and 
promotions in the civil service of the state and 
its civil divisions, including cities and villages, 
shall be made from amongst residents of the 
state and according to merit and fitness. In the 
event that competitive examinations are deemed 
practicable, the appointing or promoting power 
shall select the candidate standing highest in 
the examination unless such power shall report 
to such body as the Legislature may direct rea¬ 
sons for rejecting such candidate, when the next 
highest candidate shall be taken. No person so 
appointed or promoted shall be removed or de¬ 
graded unless a report in writing giving the rea¬ 
son therefor is made to such body. 

To Civil Service Com.' 

]\Iay 27. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 8. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 31. Reported adverseW. 

Printed Nos. 136, 736. 

No. 137. By Mr. ROSCH.— Amending section 
13. article 6, by providing that the president of 
the senate shall not act as a member of the 
impeachment court on the trial of an impeach¬ 
ment of the governor or lieutenant-governor. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 137. 

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No. 138. By Mr. QUIGG.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that all appointments 
and promotions in the civil service shall be made 
according to merit and fitness ascertained by ex¬ 
amination, whether deemed practicable or not. 
The preference in civil service now enjoyed by 
veterans of the civil war is stricken out. There 
is to be no exception from this provision except 
such .•ppointments as the legislature may direct 
to be made by the governor or by the governor 







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with the consent of the senate. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 138. 

No. 139. By Mr. QUIGG.— Amending section 
9, article 1, by prohibiting the authorization 
within the state of any kind of fighting for prizes 
or profits, or of any sale of tickets to fights or 
fighting exhibitions. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 139. 

No. 140. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Adding a new 
section 7 to article 2, reading: “No resolution or 
amendment enlarging or extending the right to 
vote which may be adopted by the people shall 
take effect until after such resolution or amend¬ 
ment shall have been submitted to the persons 
to whom it is proposed to extend such right to 
vote and a majority of such persons voting 
thereon shall have voted therefor. Laws shall 
made for the registration of such voters and 
for receiving, recording and counting votes of such 
elections.” 

To Suffrage Com. * 

Printed No. 140. 

No. 141. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 13, article 6, by providing that the as¬ 
sembly by a vote of a majority of all the members 
elected shall have the power of impeachment of 
each judge of the court of appeals, justice of the 
supreme court and officer elected by the electors 
of the entire state for malversation or wilful mis¬ 
conduct in office or for knowingly having made 
false oath or affirmation relating to the office 
or to his nomination or election thereto. The 
impeachment court shall be composed of senators 
or the major part of them and court of appeals 
judges, including supreme court justices desig¬ 
nated to serve as associate court of appeals judges. 
On the trial of an impeachment against the gov¬ 
ernor or lieutenant-governor the temporary presi¬ 
dent of the senate shall not act as a member of 
the court. On the trial of an impeachment against 
a judge or associate judge of the court of appeals 
such judge shall not act as a member of the court. 
No person shall be convicted without the concur¬ 
rence of two-thirds of all the members of the 
court, instead of two-thirds of the members 
present. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 141. 


MAY 11 

, No. 142. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 9. article 4, by providing that every posi¬ 
tion now in tbe classified competitive civil service 
or hereafter placed therein, shall so remain, and 
shall not at any time be placed in the exempt or 
non-competitive class. No regular clerk or head 
of a bureau or person holding a position in the 
classified civil service, subject to competitive ex¬ 
amination, shall be removed except for incom¬ 
petency or misconduct or insubordination shown 
after a hearing at which the accused may be 
represented by counsel and witnesses shall be 
sworn and the testimony recorded, after reason¬ 


able notice of the charges has been served on the 
accused. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 142. 

No. 143. By Mr. DOUGHTY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 8, by providing that stockholders 
of every corporation and joint stock association 
“ for indemnity, guarantee, liability, casualty ” 
as well as for banking purposes, shall be individ¬ 
ually responsible to the amount of their respec¬ 
tive share or shares of stock in any such cor¬ 
poration or association, for all its debts and 
liabilities of every kind. 

To Corporations Com. 

July 29. Com. reported no change in Constitu¬ 
tion should be made on the subject. 

Printed No. 143 

No. 144. By Mr. MARSHALL.—Amending 
sections 1, 2, inserting new section 3, renumbering 
section 3 as section 4 and amending such section 
4, article 14, by providing that an amendment to 
the constitution or the question whether a con¬ 
stitutional convention shall be held must be ap¬ 
proved by a majority of the electors voting at a 
general election or if at least three-fifths of the 
electors voting thereat for members of assembly 
shall approve such amendment or question by a 
majority of the electors voting thereon, 
validity of an election upon any question sub¬ 
mitted to the electors and the determination that 
a majority of the votes cast was for or against 
the proposition, may be contested in the supreme 
court by any elector in an action against the 
secretary of state, and the judgment rendered 
shall be reviewable by the court of appeals. The 
approval by the people at the general election 
held in 1915 of the amendment to section 1, 
article 2 of the constitution now in force, relative 
to suffrage, heretofore proposed by the legislature 
shall be deemed amendatory of such section as 
contained in this constitution. • 

To Future Amendments Com. Section 4 was 
referred to Suffrage Com. for information 
only. 

Printed No. 144. 

No. 145. By Mr. MARSHALL.— Amending 
section 1, article 15, by providing that this con¬ 
stitution shall be in force from and including 
January 1, 1916. 

To Ftiture Amendments Com. 

Aug. 11. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 25. Made Special,Order. 

Aug. 27. To'third reading. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 118, Noes 0. 

Printed No. 145. 

No. 146. By Mr. iVI. SAXE.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 10, by providing that county officers 
whose election or appointment is not provided 
for by the constitution shall be elected or ap¬ 
pointed “ by such other authority or in such other 
manner as the legislature shall direct.” The 
same provision is made regarding city, town and 
village officers whose election or appointment is 
not provided for by the constitution. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

May 20. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion 
only. 

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No. 147. By Mr. SHIPMAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 6, by providing that no law here¬ 
after enacted shall be adjudged unconstitutional 
and void by the court of appeals unless the 
decision thereon shall have the concurrence of at 
least all but one of the members of the court, 
unless in affirmance of a judgment of uncon¬ 
stitutionality, when the concurrence of all but 
two members will suffice. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 147. 


No. 148. By Mr. BERNSTEIN.—Amending 
section 2, article 6, by providing that the supreme 
court justices, instead of the governor, in each 
department shall designate from amongst them¬ 
selves those justices who shall constitute the ap¬ 
pellate division. Conventions to make such desig¬ 
nations shall be held on the first Tuesday of 
January after the adoption of this constitution 
and on the first Tuesday of January in each fifth 
’year thereafter. The terms of justices designated 
to serve on the appellate division shall be five 
years. Vacancies in the appellate division shall 
be filled by the remaining justices of such divi¬ 
sions or a majority of such justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 148. 


No. 149. By Mr. BURKAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 6, by abolishing the city court of 
New York City after January 1, 1917, all actions 
and proceedings then pending to be transferred to 
the supreme court. City court judges in office on 
January 1, 1917, shall be supreme court justices 
for the remainder of their term. Their successors 
shall be elected as supreme court justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 149. 


No. 150. By Mr. BURKAN.— Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 5 by providing that on and after 
January 1, 1917, no person* holding any office of 
profit in the state or subdivision thereof, except 
legislators, delegates to future constitutional con¬ 
ventions, notaries public and officers receiving a 
per diem compensation, shall be engaged in any 
business or practice ahy profession while holding 
office. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 150. 


No. 151. By Mr. BURKAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 6, by striking out the provision 
that the compensation of any county judge or sur¬ 
rogate shall not be increased or diminished dur¬ 
ing his term of office. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 151. 


No. 152. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.— Amending 
section 14, article 6, by providing that county 
judges shall be ohoscTi by the electors at such 
times and in such manner as the legislature may 
direct instead of for six year terms, as at present. 


County courts and the city court of N,ew York 
shall have original jurisdiction in actions in which 
the complaint demands judgment for a sum not 
exceeding $5,000, instead of $2,000. Ihe legis- 
Mature may enlarge or restrict the jurisdiction of 
the city court of New York. It may continue the 
court of general sessions in New York county or 
abolish it, in which latter event all actions pend¬ 
ing in general sessions shall be transferred to 
the supreme court, and general sessions judges 
shall be made supreme court justices for the trial 
of criminal causes only within New York and 
Bronx counties. Their successors shall be elected 
or appointed as supreme court justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No, 152. 


No. 153. By Mr. CLEARWATER.—Amending 
section 1, article 13, relative to oath of office so 
as to permit the court of appeals to prescribe 
such an oath as it may deem requisite or proper 
to be taken by attorneys or counselors-at-law upon 
their admission to practice in the courts of the 
state. 

To Judiciary Cora. 

Printed No. 153. 


No. 154. By Mr. DUNLAP.— Aqiending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by permitting the state to cut or 
remove or sell mature, dead or fallen timber, to 
lease camp and cottage sites, and to construct 
roads and fire trails. No camp or cottage site 
lease shall exceed five acres nor be for more than 
ten years. The state forest shall be under the 
management of a commission of three members 
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of 
the senate, one commissioner to be a practical 
forester. The commissioner shall hold office for 
ten years unless removed for good reasons after 
a hearing. The commission shall appoint a com¬ 
mission and all other officers and employees from 
eligible competitive civil service lists. Violation 
of any provisions of this section may be restrained 
at the suit of the people or an action may be 
brought in the supreme court by any citizen. 
The legislature shall pass general laws to carry 
out these provisions but no law shall be passed in 
any way interfering with the management and 
control by the commission of the forests of the 
state or the water supply therein. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 28. Motion to refer also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

June 2. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 154. 

No. 155. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amending section 
13, article 6, by providing that no officer, instead 
of no judicial officer, as at present, shall exercise 
his office after articles of impeachment against 
him shall have been preferred to the senate until 
he shall have been acquitted. • 

To Judiciary Com. 

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No. 156. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 4 , article 4, by providing that the gov¬ 
ernor shall have power to convene the legislature 
only in an emergency calling for legislative action 
as to the public health, public credit or public 
defense. He shall, not later than 45 days after 
the legislature convenes in regular session, sub¬ 
mit thereto a statement of appropriations recom¬ 
mended by him for the ensuing fiscal year and 
also a statement of estimated receipts from all 
sources except through direct taxation. Such 
statement shall be known as the annual budget. 
The governor’s salary is increased from $10,000 
to $20,000. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also referred to Finance Com. for informa¬ 
tion only. 

Printed No. 156. 


No. 157. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 9, article 4, by providing that if any bill 
sent to the governor contains an item of ap¬ 
propriation not contained in the annual budget, 
he may object to or reduce the amount of any 
such item, and if any bill so presented carry an 
item contained in the annual budget, the amount 
of which shall have been increased by the legis¬ 
lature, he may object to or reduce the same to 
the amount stated in the budget. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 157. 


No. 158. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 21, article 3, by providing that appro¬ 
priations made by the legislature in 1916 shall 
be made for a period ending June 30, 1917, and 
thereafter the fiscal year of the state shall end 
on June 30 of each year. 

To Finance Com. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced.- (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed No. 158. 

No. 159. By Mr. COBB.— Amending section 8, 
article 7, by authorizing the legislature to pro¬ 
vide at any time for the sale, lease or other 
disposition of those portions of such canals 
which shall have been permanently abandoned 
for canal purposes, such sale, lease, or disposition, 
however, to be subject to the approval of the com¬ 
missioners of the land office. 

To Canals Com. 

May 14. Amended and recommitted. 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed Nos. 159, 222, 

No. 160. By Mr. COBB.— Amending section 9, 
article 6, by providing that appeals may be taken 
to the court of appeals as of right only where a 
provision of this or the United States constitu¬ 
tion is in question, or where one or more of the 
appellate division justices shall have dissented 
from the decision upon which the judgment or 
order appealed from is based, or where the judg¬ 
ment is of death. The court of appeals or a 
•committee of that body may, however, allow ap¬ 
peals in cases involving questions of public and 


general importance or questions upon which the 
decisions of two or more appellate divisions are 
at variance, and it shall have power to establish 
rules governing the allowance of appeals in con¬ 
formity with this section. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 160. 


No. 161. By Mr. SCHURMAN.—Adding a 
new section to article 5 providing that there shall 
be two public service districts, the first embracing 
New York City and the second the remainder of 
the state. In each district there shall be a 
public service commission consisting of five 
members appointed by the governor with the con¬ 
sent of the senate, for a ten year term, the terms 
to be so arranged that one member shall go out of 
office on the first day of February each year. The 
commission shall have supervision, regulation and 
control of public utilities in accordance with such 
laws as now exist or may hereafter be enacted. 
Any commissioner may be removed by the senate 
on recommendation of the governor, by a two- 
thirds vote of all senators elected. Any com¬ 
missioner removed upon charges shall have an 
opportunity to be heard before the' senate. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Julv 28. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
706.) 

Printed No. 161. 


No. 162. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.— Adding 
new section 19 to article 3, reading, “ While there 
is existing a law or laws conferring jurisdiction 
or power upon any court, commission or body to 
determine and fix the just and reasonable fares, 
rates, charges or rentals to be made, imposed or 
collected by public utilities, or by some of them, 
the legislature shall pass no law fixitig or pre¬ 
scribing the maximum fares, 'rates, charges or 
rentals to be charged by any public utility sub¬ 
ject to the jurisdiction or power of such court, 
commission or body.” 

To Public Utilities Com. 

Printed No. 162. 


No. 163. By Mr. LEGGETT.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 17, 22 and 23, article 6, by striking out the 
provision for the election of justices of the peace 
for four year terms and providing that justices 
of the peace and other local judicial officers are 
continued in office with their present powers, 
duties and compensation until the legislature 
shall otherwise provide. All existing inferior 
local courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction are 
also continued until the legislature shall other¬ 
wise provide. _ Section 23, which provides that 
courts of special session shall have such juris¬ 
diction of oflfenses of the grade of misdemeanors 
as may be prescribed by law, is stricken out. 

To Judiciary Com. 

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No. 164. By Mr. TUCK.— Amending section 
12, article 6, by providing that the governor, on 
the request of the appellate division of any de¬ 
partment may assign for the holding of special 
or trial terms of the supreme court, or parts 
thereof, in that department any court of appeals 
judge or supreme court justice who has been 
retired, for age and who consents thereto, at a 
compensation of $50 per day. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 10. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 164, 536. 


No. 165. By Mr. LINCOLN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 2, by requiring the legislature to 
enact laws for registration of voters and the con¬ 
duct of party primaries or conventions, and of 
general and special elections, at the first regular 
session after this constitution takes effect. Such 
laws shall not thereafter be amended, altered or 
repealed unless two-thirds of -the members elected 
to each branch of the legislature shall give their 
assent. Laws may be made providing that in 
cities and villages voters may on the first day 
prescribed for registration, be registered without 
personal application, on filing with the board of 
registry proof as required by law that they will 
not be able to register personally on any of the 
days prescribed for registration. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 165. 


MAY 12 

No. 166. By Mr. PELLETREAU.—Amending 
section 2, article 3, by increasing from two to 
four years the terms of senators and from one 
to two years the terms of assemblymen, beginning 
with those elected in 1916. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 166. 

No. 167. By Mr. PELLETREAU.— Amending 
section 6, article 10, by providing for biennial 
sessions of the legislature. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 167. 


No. 168. By Mr. PELLETREAU.— Amending 
section 13, article 3, by providing that any bill 
containing an appropriation of public moneys or 
property for local or private purposes must origi¬ 
nate in the assembly. Now they may originate in 
either house. Appropriation bills may be amend^ 
in the senate, and an appropriation of public 
moneys reduced in amount but not increased. 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 168. 


No. 169. By Mr. BRENNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 1, by providing that the compensa¬ 
tion for private property taken for public use 
shall be ascertained by a judge of condemnation 
appointed by the appellate division of the depart¬ 
ment in which the property sought to be taken 


is situated, instead of by a jury or the supreme 
court with or without a jury or by three con¬ 
demnation commissioners as at present. The 
judges of condemnation shall possess the same 
qualifications as judges of the supreme court ex¬ 
cept that the age limit shall not apply. Their 
salaries and number shall be fixed by the appellate 
division. While holding office no judge of con¬ 
demnation shall engage in any business or pro- 
lession or hold any other salaried public office. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 169. 


No. 170. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Adding new 
section to article 6, continuing the general ses¬ 
sions court of New York county, with all the 
powers and jurisdiction it now possesses and such 
other powers and jurisdiction as the legislature 
may confer upon it. The salaries of judges shall 
be paid by the county and be the same as now 
established. Tlieir successors shall be chosen by 
the electors of New York county and they may be 
removed in the same manner as supreme court 
justices. Their terras shall be 14 years. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 170. 


No. 171. By Mr. BELL.— Amending section 1, 
article 2, by providing that every voter must be 
able to read and write the English language. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 171. 


No. 172. By Mr. BERNSTEIN.— Amending 
sections 1, 2 and 5 of article 5, by providing that 
the secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, 
attorney-general, commissioners of health, agri¬ 
culture and conservation, labor and industry, 
public works, highways and canals, public insti¬ 
tutions, public utilities, banking and insurance 
and of excise, shall be appointed by the governor 
with the consent of the senate and shall hold office 
during the governor’s pleasure. They shall per¬ 
form such duties and have such powers and com¬ 
pensation as may be authorized by law. The canal 
board shall consist of the commissioner of high¬ 
ways and canals and the commissioner of public 
works and the commissioners of the canal fund. 
The office of state engineer and surveyor is abol¬ 
ished. Sections 3 and 4 of article 5 are repealed. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

June 16. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See InU 
716.) 

Printed No. 172. 

No. 173. By Mr. SLEVTN.— Amending section 
3, article 1, by providing that no person qualified 
to act as a juror in any of the courts of the 
state, shall be interrogated as to his religious 
beliefs. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 173. 







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No. 174. By Mr. HAFEEN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 3, by increasing the number of 
assemblymen for Erie county from 9 to 10, of 
Kings county from 23 to 27, of Monroe county 
from 5 to 6, of Nassau county from 1 to 2, of 
Queens county from 4 to 6, of Richmond county 
from 1 to 2, of Schenectady county from 1 to 2, 
of Westchester county from 4 to 5. The number 
of assemblymen in New York county is reduced 
from 35 to 30 while Bronx county is allowed 9 
assemblymen. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 174. 


No. 175. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amending section 
17, article 6, by providing that not more than one 
person shall hold the office of justice of the peace 
at one time in any town containing less than 
4,000 inhabitants and not more than two persons 
shall hold that office at one time in any other 
town. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 175. 

No. 176. By Mr. CULLINAN.—Adding new 
section 13 to article 7, reading: “No act shall 
be pased by the legislature granting a gratuity or 
pension payable out of the funds of the state, 
unless the act shall provide that it shall not take 
effect until it shall, at a general election, have 
been submitted to the people and have received a 
majority of all the votes cast for and against it 
at such election.” 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 176. 

No. 177. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Amended sec¬ 
tion 4, article i, by adding at the end thereof “And 
whenever a judicial officer having authority to 
issue a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the 
cause of detention of a person held by virtue of 
a warrant of extradition, issues such writ he shall 
have full power to compel an inspection of the 
papers upon which the executive acted in issuing 
the warrant of extradition.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 177. 

No. 178. By Mr. L. M. MARTIN.—Amending 
sections 1 and 2, article 10, by authorizing the 
legislature to erect new counties or abolish old 
ones or change their boundaries. County affairs 
shall be managed by a board of not more than 7 
members, as provided by law, appointed or elected. 
Sheriffs shall be appointed by the governor and 
confirmed by the senate. The sheriff shall appoint 
a district attorney. The county managers shall 
be the county comptroller, county auditor, county 
clerk or register, county treasurer and such other 
county agents as may be needed to do the county 
business. Towns shall be formed of people so 
situated that they constitute practically one com¬ 
munity with its own distinctive business and 
social life and traditions. The legislature may 
provide for town meetings at least once a year 
to choose a town council of at least and not more 
than 7 members, and also a mayor who may be 
appointed or elected. Each town shall have a 
comptroller, auditor, treasurer and clerk. Any 
town may by vote of the electors adopt a charter 


providing for a local self-government. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

Printed No. 178. 

No. 179. By Mr. L. M. MARTIN.—Amending 
section 1, article 5, by providing that the secre¬ 
tary of state, treasurer and state engineer shall be 
appointed by the governor with the consent of 
the senate. The attorney-general shall appoint a 
sufficient number of deputies to properly transact 
the staters legal business, whose duties shall be 
prescribed by him and who shall be assigned as 
legal, advisers to various state officers and de¬ 
partments. They shall receive a compensation 
to be fixed by law and shall hold office, one-third 
of their number for two years, one-third for 
four years, and one-third for six years. No state 
officer, department, commission or bureau, except 
the education department, shall employ or desig¬ 
nate counsel. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 179. 

No. 180. By Mr. L. M. MARTIN.—AddiiTg new 
section 16 to article 8, providing that business 
corporations shall include all companies organized 
to do business or handle money for a profit and 
organized under conditions prescribed by law. 
They may invest their funds in real or personal 
estate or in safe securities. They may buy and 
sell the same but none of the funds shall be so 
used as to obtain control of another business cor¬ 
poration. All profits shall be divided at least 
once a year. No surplus shall be carried over 
nor shall bonds or preferred stock be issued but 
instead thereof certificates stating the interest of 
each stockholder in the company and evidences of 
claims shall be issued to each depositor. No 
certificate shall be issued that does not represent 
actual money paid in or property put in at actual 
market value as determined by the public service 
commission. Each stockholder shall share ac¬ 
cording to his interest in the assets after de¬ 
positors are paid in full. The public service com¬ 
mission may give existing companies not to ex¬ 
ceed three years to comply with this provision. 

To Corporations Com. 

July 29. Committee reported no change in Con¬ 
stitution should be made on the subject. 

Printed No. 180. 

No. 181. By Mr. L. M. MARTIN.—Adding 
new section 15 to article 8, reading: “It shall 
be the privilege of persons employed by any other 
person, firm, corporation, or employing body to 
form a union of their own, to deal with their 
employers as a unit in matters of mutual interest. 
But no such unions shall have the right to punish 
in any way a member for non-compliance with 
union rules, or for speaking his mind, or for 
acting individually in the case. Nor shall it be 
lawful to form a union that comprises employees 
of more than one employing body.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

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No. 182. By Mr. DEYO.— Amending section 
4, article 4, increasing from $10,000 to $20,000 
the annual salary of the governor, authorizing 
him by message to introduce bills in eitlier house 
of the legislature embodying his recommendations 
and those of department heads. The governor 
and department heads may be present on the floor 
during the consideration of any such bills to 
explain their provisions and to reply to questions. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 182. 

No. 183. By Mr. HODENBECK.—Adding new 
section 2-a to article 6, conferring authority upon 
the justices of the appellate division to make 
rules of procedure in court proceedings, such rules 
to be certifled to the Governor within 10 days 
after their adoption. The governor may annul 
any rule, whereupon it shall become void unless 
within 30 days thereafter two-thirds of all the 
said justices shall re-adopt the rule. The legis¬ 
lature may pass laws regulating procedure not 
covered by these rules. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 183. 

No. 184. By Mr. 'RODENBECK.— Amending 
section 15, article 3, by prohibiting the intro¬ 
duction in the legislature of any bill except by a 
standing or select committee, until it has been 
approved as to form and expression, but not as 
to substance, by the legislative counsel to be 
appointed by the governor with the consent of 
the senate for a term of 6 years at a compensation 
to be flxed by the legislature. The legislative 
counsel shall also prepare revisions and consolida¬ 
tions of statutes, report to the legislature defects 
and omissions in statutes, present bills designed 
to remedy these defects, prepare indexes of stat¬ 
utes and perform such other duties as the legisla¬ 
ture may prescribe. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

]\Iay 27. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 184. 


No. 185. By Mr. RODENBECK.— Adding new 
section 2-b to article 6, authorizing appellate 
division justices to designate a supreme court 
justice to be a judiciary counsel to prepare rules 
of pleading, practice and procedure for the court 
for submission to said justices for action thereon, 
to prepare statistics relative to the operation of 
such rules and of business transacted by the 
courts, report defects and omissions in statutes 
and rules relating to procedure and perform such 
other duties as may be prescribed by said justices. 
The judiciary counsel shall serve without further 
compensation. The appellate division justices 
may authorize him to appoint necessary assistants 
and fix their compensation, and to classify causes, 
regulate calendar practice, assign judges to terms 
of court and exercise a general supervision over 
the business of the administration of justice in 
the courts. 

To Judiciary .Com. 

Printed No. 185. 


No. 186. By Mr. LINCOLN.— Adding new sec¬ 
tion 10 to article 5, reading: “No office, com¬ 
mission, department, board or bureau of the state 
shall hereafter be created by the legislature except 
as a department or bureau of an existing state 
office, commission, department, board or bureau; 
but the legislature may consolidate offices, com¬ 
missions, departments, boards or bureaus existing 
when this constitution takes effect, and not 
created by this constitution, or provide for their 
subordination, one to another, where efficiency 
and economy in the government will be promoted 
thereby.’" 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

716.) 

Printed No. 186. 


No. 187. By Mr. SANDERS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, 2 and 3 of article 12 so as to secure to 
cities and incorporated villages the right of self- 
government and to limit the power of the legis¬ 
lature to the enactment of general laws for the 
organization and government thereof. The legis¬ 
lature shall provide by general law, optional plans 
of city or village government which shall each 
provide a governing board to be elected by the 
electors and having all the legislative powers 
delegated to such municipalities with or without 
a mayor or other chief executive having or not 
having veto power over the acts of such govern- 
j ing body, and with or without an independent 
board of estimate. The powers of the governing 
board are prescribed and other provisions made. 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

712.) 

Printed No. 187. 


MAY 13 

No. 188. By Mr. PELLETREAU.—Amending 
section 2, article 1, by providing that a jury trial 
may be waived in criminal as well as civil cases 
and that all juries in all cases in which it has 
been heretofore used shall consist of six persons 
and that it shall be necessary for but five thereof 
to render a verdict. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 189. 

No. 189. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Adding a 
new section 24 to article 6, reading: “ The offices 
of official referee, excepting those created from 
former supreme court justices and court of ap¬ 
peals judges, are hereby abolished, and no such 
office, or similar office, shall hereafter be created. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 190. 

No. 190. By Mr. BAYES.—Amending section 6, 
article 10, by providing that the legislature shall 
adjourn finally not later than March 15. After 
January 15 both branches of the legislature shall 
hold sessions on at least six days a week. 

. To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 191. 






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No. 191. By Mr. BAYES.— Amending section 
11, article 3, by providing that neither house of 
the legislature, without the consent of the other, 
shall adjourn for more than two days, except over 
Sunday. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 192. . 

No. 192. By Mr. BAYES.— Amending section 
13', article 3, by providing that no bill may be 
introduced in either house of the legislature at an 
annual session after January 15th, except on a 
message from the governor or by report of a 
committee. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 193. 

No. 193. By Mr. A. E. SMITH—Adding new 
section to article 3 reading: “ The legislature 

may directly or through any duly constituted 
administrative agency, prescribe the living wages 
that shall be paid to women and children em¬ 
ployees.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 9. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 194. 

Sept. 3. Notice of motion to suspend rules and 
take up bill. 

Sept. 4. Debated but no action taken. (Died 
on Special Orders.) 

Printed Nos. 194, 791. 

No. 194. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Adding new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
may delegate to any state board or commission, 
agency, power to make rules and regulations, 
supplementing, modifying, adapting or otherwise 
applying according to varying conditions laws 
passed for the protection of the lives, health, 
safety or welfare of any class or classes of persons 
or the public generally.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 16. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 720. 

Sept. 3. Notice of motion to suspend rules and 
take up bill. 

Printed Nos. 195, 765. 

No. 195. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.— Adding new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
may prohibit in whole or in part the manufactur¬ 
ing of any article in structures used for dwelling 
purposes.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

July 26. Similar bill reported. ' (See Int. 
407.) 

. Printed No. 196. 

No. 196. By Mr. A. E. SIVHTH.— Amending 
section 19, article 1, and adding a new section to 
article 1, reading: “Nothing contained in this 
constitution shall be construed to limit the power 
of the legislature to enact laws for the protection 
of the lives, health, safety, comfort or general 
welfare of employees, or to delegate in its dis¬ 
cretion to any duly constituted commission, board 


or administrative agency, power to make rules 
and regulations supplementing, varying, modify¬ 
ing, adapting or otherwise applying such laws to 
existing conditions.” 

To Industrial Interests Ccm. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 197. 

No. 197. By Mr. BALDWIN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 1, by providing that in a civil 
action in the supreme court such jury trial shall 
be deemed to be waived by all the parties unless 
a party shall, within ten days after the issue is 
joined, file a written demand for such trial; and 
if- jury trial be thus waived, the case shall be 
tried before three justices if either party shall 
file written demand therefor before the beginning 
of the term of court at which the case is noticed 
for trial, and otherwise before one justice. If 
the case be tried before three justices, the judg¬ 
ment shall be final and not subject to appeal or 
review except on questions of law. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 198. 


No. 198. By Mr. C. NICOLL.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 7 and 8, article 6, by providing that suc¬ 
cessors to the chief judge or associate judges of 
the court of appeals now in office shall be ap¬ 
pointed by the governor with the consent of the 
senate instead of elected as at present. Their 
14 year terms shall begin on October 1, next after 
their appointment. Provision is made for the 
filling of vacancies by appointment of the gov¬ 
ernor. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 199. 


No. 199. By Mr. BLAUVELT — Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 7, by providing that accumulations 
in sinking fund, from time to time, in excess of 
an amount which, together with the future in¬ 
crease provided for by direct taxes or substituted 
contributions, shall be sufficient to pay when due 
the principal and interest of the debt to which 
the fund relates, may be appropriated by the 
legislature and used for the same purpose as that 
for which the debt was created. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed No. 200'. 

No. 200. 'By Mr. WINSLOW.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 12, by providing that the hours of 
duty of any employee of any of the departments 
of any city shall not exceed on an average, more 
than 12 hours in each 24 hours, except in cases 
of, emergency. 

To Cities Com. 

Printed No. 201. 

No. 201. By Mr. BARRETT*.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 10, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture shall provide by statute for the creation of 
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of taxes in each county, the officers of the de¬ 
partment to be county officers. 

To Taxation Coin. 

Printed No. 202. 

No. 202. By Mr. BARRETT.— Repealing sec¬ 
tions 26 and 27 of article 3, amending sections 1 
and 3 of article 10 and adding two new sections 
to article 10, by providing that laws relating 
to the government of counties and to the methods 
of selection, terms of office, removal and compen¬ 
sation of county officers shall be general laws 
both in terms and in effect. The governing body 
of any county, the members of which shall be 
elected in 1916 or thereafter may repeal such 
portions of any law passed prior to the adoption 
of this constitution, as shall relate to the fore¬ 
going subjects and shall affect exclusively such 
county. Not later than May 1, 1917 the legisla¬ 
ture shall pass a law authorizing any county ex¬ 
cept one included wholly within a single city, 
upon petition, of a percentage of the electors 
thereof to be determined by the legislature, to 
adopt one of at least three forms of county 
government, to be set forth in such law. Such 
law shall among other things confer upon the 
governing body such powers of local legislation, 
government and administration as the legislature 
may deem expedient. Provision is made for a 
county governing body to be composed of sucfi 
members and elected in such manner and for such 
period as may be provided by law. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See 
Int. 713.). 

Printed No. 203. 

No. 203. By Mr. ROSCH.— Amending section 
9, article 1, by providing that “ strikes, lockouts 
and similar forms of industrial differences, affect¬ 
ing the relations between employers and employees 
in which the rights and interests of public util¬ 
ities or industrial operations, or the welfare of 
the people of the state generally may suffer, are 
declared subject to regulation by statute, and 
the legislature may provide for the establishment 
of councils of conciliation and boards of arbi¬ 
tration for settlement of disputes between em¬ 
ployers and employees.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

May 18. Reference changed to Industrial In¬ 
terests Com. 

Printed No. 204. 


No. 204. By Mr. WIGGINS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 13, by giving the legislature author¬ 
ity to provide for the issuing of free transporta¬ 
tion to* the chiefs of police of the municipalities 
of the state. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

Printed No. 205. 

No. 205. By Mr. WIGGINS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 3, by providing that members of 
the legislature may act as notaries public or 
commissioners of deeds during their term of 
office. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 206. 


No. 206. By Mr. VANDERLYN.—Amending 
section 2, article 1, by providing that an agree¬ 
ment of five-sixths of a jury shall constitute a 
verdict in a civil action. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 207. 


No. 207. By Mr. McKEAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by permitting the state to cut, 
remove or sell dead or fallen timber or trees and 
to construct roads and fire trails. The legislature 
may authorize the sale of lands outside the Adiron¬ 
dack anri Catskill parks, except state lands adja¬ 
cent to Lake George and lands contiguous to the 
Adirondack Park. Proceeds of such sales and 
all other net revenue from the forest preserve 
shall be used for the purchase of lands in the 
Adirondack and Catskill parks, for reforestation 
of lands in said parks and for other purposes for 
the benefit of the forests in said parks. The 
state’s forests shall be under the care of a'com¬ 
missioner appointed by the governor for 10 years 
and removable by him upon reasons publicly 
stated and after a hearing. The commissioner 
shall appoint all officers and employees from 
eligible competitive civil service lists. Action may 
be brought in the supreme court by any citizen to 
enforce the provisions of these sections. 

To Conservation Com. 

May 28. Motion to refer also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. tabled. 

Jime 3. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See 
Int. 708.) 

Printed No. 208. 

No. 208. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amending section 
18, article 6, giving the legislature power to con¬ 
fer upon any inferior local court of its creation, 
territorial and personal jurisdiction equal to that 
of a justice of the peace. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 209. 

No. 209. By Mr. DEYO.— Amending section 
9, article 4, by permitting the governor to ap¬ 
prove a direct state tax rate fixed in a bill, at 
a lower amount than that specified and to object 
to the difference between the rate approved and 
that specified. ♦ 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

May 27. Reference changed to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com., and referred to 
Finance Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 210. 

No. 210. By Mr. SANDERS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 10, by providing that all city, town 
and village officers, whose election or appoint¬ 
ment is not provided for by the constitution, 
shall be elected or appointed by such authorities 
thereof as shall be provided by law instead of as 
the legislature shall designate for that purpose. 

To County, Town and Village Gov’t. Com. 

Printed No. 211. 






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No. 211. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a 
new section to article 4, reading: “If a bill to 
impose a direct tax, other than one requiring 
approval by the people, be before the governor for 
consideration after final adjournmeint of the 
legislature, he may, in his discretion, amend it 
by striking out the amount of the tax, and sub¬ 
stituting therefor a lesser amount; and the bill, 
as amended, when approved by the governor, shall 
be a law.” 

To Finance Com. 

June 4. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 212. 


No. 212. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 5, article 2, by providing that all elections 
by the electors shall be by ballot or such other 
method as may be prescribed by law, and that 
each elector shall be permitted to vote for all 
candidates of a political party or body, or any 
candidate to be voted for by making one voting 
mark or one mechanical movement. 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 7. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 213, 730. 

No. 213. By Mr. AHEARN.—Amending section 
1, article 14, by providing that proposed amend¬ 
ments to the constitution shall not be submitted 
for approval on a day set aside for general elec¬ 
tion purposes. No other matter shall be sub¬ 
mitted to the people for their approval on said 
day. The legislature shall provide for the publi¬ 
cation of proposed amendments for at least 30 
days prior to the day set for their submission to 
the people. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 214. 


No. 214. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 3, by prohibiting the legislature 
from passing any bill granting to any corporation, 
association or individual the right to approve a 
claim against the state or against any political 
subdivision thereof, or any bill authorizing any 
political subdivision of the state to allow or pay 
any claim or account. 

To Legislative Powers Com. • 

June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 12. Amended. 

July 26. Placed at foot of Calendar. 

Sept. 1. Recoii^mitted. 

Printed Nos. 215, 738. 


MAY 14 

No. 215. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
sections 14 and 17, article 6, by consolidating 
under the name of the city court all the county 
courts in Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx 
counties, the city court and municipal court of 
New York city. The new court shall have the 
jurisdiction and powers now possessed by each 
of the consolidated courts, except that the limita¬ 


tion OH the jurisdiction of coimty courts as to 
residence of defendant in the county shall not ap¬ 
ply. Justices now in office shall continue until 
the end of their term. Their successors shall 
be elected in the first odd-numbered year follow¬ 
ing the expiration of the respective terms of 
such justices, for ten year terms by the several 
municipal court districts as now constituted or 
as these districts may be changed by the legisla¬ 
ture. The legislature may increase the number 
of justices, designate the districts from which 
they shall be elected, hereafter enlarge or re¬ 
strict the jurisdiction of the new court provided 
that it shall not be increased beyond that of 
county courts, and in all other respects provide 
for the completion of the consolidation of the 
courts and for proper administration of justice 
in the new court.. 

To Judiciary Cora. 

Printed No. 216. 


No. 216. By Mr. WIOKBRSHAM.—Adding 
new section 30 to article 3, reading: “All ex¬ 
isting exemptions from liability to jury duty are 
abolished, and hereafter ithe legislature shall 
enact no law exempting from liability to jury 
duty any person, or class of persons, except by 
reason and during the time of his or their actual 
employment in the service of the state, or a po¬ 
litical subdivision thereof, or of the United 
States.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 217. 


No. 217. By Mr. WICKERSHA^L—Striking 
out section 2, article 1, and inserting a new sec¬ 
tion 2 providing that the right of trial by jury 
as it existed under the laws in force on April 
20, 1777, shall remain inviolate, but in civil 
actions the legislature may authorize verdicts to 
be rendered by less than 12 jurors. A trial by 
jury may be waived in all criminal cases not pun¬ 
ishable with death or imprisonment for life, by 
the consent of both parties expressed in open 
court, and in all civil actions, by the consent of 
parties signified in such manner as may be pre¬ 
scribed by law. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 218. 


No. 218. By Mr. SHIPMAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 10, by providing for the election 
of public defenders in counties having public de¬ 
fenders once in every three years, except in New 
York and Kings and in counties whose boundaries 
are the same as those of the city where such offi¬ 
cers shall be elected every two or four years as 
the legislature shall direct. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

Printed No. 219. 


No. 219. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amending section 
7, article 7, by permitting the leasing of forest 
preserve lands for limited periods, not exceeding 
25 years. The return to the state from the cor;- 
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nicipal water supply and other improvements 
the cost of which is a charge upon property and 
municipalities benefited, shall be just as well as 
reasonable. The state is permitted to cut, remove 
and sell timber and trees from the forest preserve 
which are dead or fallen, or detrimental to forest 
growth, under regulations recommended to the gov¬ 
ernor by the state university, to construct roads 
and trails for protecting the forests against fire’. 
Unsanitary conditions shall not be created or con¬ 
tinued by any such public works or by the develop¬ 
ment of public water power. Whenever the forest 
preserve area shall exceed 2,500,000 acres any sur¬ 
plus of revenue therefrom, over sums required 
for reforestation and protection thereof against 
fire, shall be devoted to the purposes of the state 
university. The legislature may provide for the 
regulation and supervision of all cutting of tim¬ 
ber and trees on privately owned non-arable lands 
in the forest preserve. Private lands may be 
taken for reservoirs for municipal water supply, 
for canals, for regulation of the flow of streams 
and development of public water power. Water, 
water power, water power sites and lands under 
water owned by the state shall not be sold, 
granted or given away in perpetuity or in any 
manner removed from public ownership. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Bill of Rights 
Com, for its opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

"Printed No. 220. 

No. 220. By Mr. BUXCE.— Adding two new 
sections, 10 and 11, to article 5, providing for 
the appointment of a conservation commissioner 
by the governor with the consent of the senate, 
for a term of six years. The commissioner shall 
be charged with the execution and enforcement of 
all laws relating to forests, the protection and 
propagation of fish and game, including shell 
fish. The governor may remove him for cause 
after a hearing. The commissioner shall make 
all appointments in his office from open competi¬ 
tive civil service lists. The governor shall ap¬ 
point a water power and water supply commis¬ 
sioner with the consent of the senate for a term 
of four years who shall be charged with the exe¬ 
cution and enforcement of all laws relating to 
water power, water sites and conservation of 
\vater supply and water resources. He may be 
removed for cause after a hearing. All appoint¬ 
ments by the commissioner shall be made from 
competitive civil service lists. The water power 
and water supply owned by the state in any form 
may not be sold, granted or given away in per¬ 
petuity or in any manner removM from public 
ownership. 

Referred to Governor and Other State Offi¬ 
cers Com. Copy to Conservation Com. 

Printed No. 221. 


MAY 18 

No. 221. By Mr. PELLETREAU.— Amending 
section 4, article 4, by increasing from $10,000 
to $15,000 the annual salary of the governor and 
requiring the governor with the advice of the sec¬ 


retary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney- 
general and state engineer and surveyor, who 
shall comprise the governor’s council, to transmit 
to the legislature not later than 45 days after it 
convenes in regular session, a state budget con¬ 
taining appropriations recommended by him and 
estimated receipts from all sources except direct 
taxation. The governor may transmit a recom¬ 
mendation for specific appropriations at an ex¬ 
traordinary session of the legislature. 

To Finance Com. 

June 4. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed No. 223. 

No. 222. By ]\Ir. PELLETREAU.— Amending 
section 1, article 5, by providing that the secre¬ 
tary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney- 
general and state engineer and surveyor shall be 
appointed by the governor to hold office at his 
pleasure instead of being elected for two years. 
They shall comprise the governor’s council. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 224. 

No. 223. By Mr. PELLETREAU.—Striking 
out section 2, article 5, and substituting a new 
section 2, providing that the secretary of state, 
comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general and state 
engineer and surveyor may occupy seats on the 
floor of the senate and assembly and participate 
in debate on matters relating to the business of 
their respective departments and give information 
asked by resolution or in reply to questions pro¬ 
pounded to them. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

May 27. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 3. Reference changed to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 225. 

No. 224. By Mr. BUXBAUM.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 20, article 6, by providing that no court of 
appeals judge, supreme court justice, county judge 
or surrogate hereafter appointed, as well as 
elected, shall practice as an attorney or counsellor 
in any court of record or act as referee. The 
limitation of this provision to counties having a 
population of more than 120,000 is stricken out. 
No person shall hereafter be elected or appointed 
to any judicial office, except that of justice of 
peace, who is not an attorney and counsellor of 
this state. 

To Judiciary Com. • 

Printed No. 226. 

No. 225. By Mr. SARGENT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 2, by providing for compulsory vot¬ 
ing. Laws shall be made for ascertaining by 
proper proofs, the citizens whose duty it shall be 
to exercise the right of suffrage hereby established, 
and providing suitable penalties for the neglect 
of such duty. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed Na 28.7 







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No. 226. By Mr. NEWBURGEK.—Amending 
section 6, article 2, by providing that all election 
boards and officers shall be appointed or elected 
from the enrolled voters at the last preceding gen¬ 
eral election in the districts for which they shall 
be so appointed or elected. 

To Suffrage Com. 

■ Printed No. 228. 


No. 227. By Mr. NEWBUKGEK.—Amending 
section 1, article 10, by extending the term of 
office of district attorneys to five years in the 
counties of New York and Kings and in counties 
whose boundaries are the same as those of a city 
and making said district attorneys ineligible for 
re-election for the next term after the termination 
of their offices, and providing that all votes for 
any of said district attorneys for any other office 
given by the legislature or the people shall be 
void. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

Printed No. 229. 


No. 228. By Mr. FOLEY.—Amending section 
4, article 3, by providing that an enumeration of 
the inhabitants of the state shall be taken in 1925 
and every tenth year thereafter, and that in re¬ 
apportioning senate districts the legislature shall 
make each senate district as far as practicable 
coterminus with county boundaries. The provi¬ 
sions that no county shall be divided in the for¬ 
mation of a senate district except to make two 
or more senate districts wholly in such county, 
and that no county shall have four or more sena¬ 
tors unless it shall have a full ratio for each 
senator, or have more than one-third of all the 
senators, and that no two counties which are ad¬ 
joining counties, or are separated only by public 
waters, shall have more than one-half of all the 
senators, are stricken out, as well as the excep¬ 
tion that if any county having three or more 
senators shall be entitled to additional senator, 
such additional senator to be given to such 
county in addition to the fifty senators. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 230. 


No. 229. By Mr. KIEK.—Amending sections 1, 
2, 4, 7 and 12, article 6, striking out section 8, 
by providing that justices of the court of appeals 
and of the various appellate divisions shall be 
designated by the supreme court justices elected 
from each department. The legislature shall di¬ 
vide the state into three departments, the first to 
consist of New York and Bronx counties, the sec¬ 
ond of Kings, Queens, Nassau, Richmond, West¬ 
chester, Suffolk, Rockland, Putnam, Orange and 
Dutchess counties, and the third of all the other 
counties contained in the third, fourth, fifth, 
sixth, seventh and eighth judicial districts. The 
court of appeals shall consist of nine justices and 
the appellate division of the first department of 
ten justices, and the appellate division of each 
of the other departments of eight justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 231. 


No. 230. By Mr. KIRK.—Amending sections 
1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 25, article 
3, striking out sections 3, 4 and 13, by abolishing 
the senate and providing for the election of an 
assembly of 168 members, one from each assembly 
district, and fifteen at large to be elected from 
New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond 
counties. They shall be elected in 1917 and hold 
•office for one, two and three years respectively, 
their successors to be chosen for three years. The 
assemblymen at large shall be elected for three 
years. Each member shall receive $3,000 a year. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

June 10. Reported adversely. Consideration 
report postponed to June 15. 

June 15. Action postponed to June 24. 

June 24. No action taken. 

Printed No. 232. 


No. 231. By Mr. SHEEHAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 3, by abolishing state enumerations 
after 1916 and providing that reapportionments 
shall thereafter be based on federal enumerations. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 233. 


No. 232. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by striking out the provision that 
no person shall be compelled in any criminal case 
to be a witness against himself, and also the ex¬ 
ceptions to this section with regard to impeach¬ 
ment and other cases. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 234. 


No. 233. By Mi. J. G. SAXE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 1, by providing that a jury trial 
may be waived by the parties in criminal as well 
as civil cases, as may be provided by law. The 
number of jurymen may be reduced by law, the 
requirement of unanimity may be dispensed with, 
and in addition to or instead of a general verdict 
the jury may be required to answer specific ques¬ 
tions. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 235. 


No. 234. By Mr. LOW.—Amending sections 1 
and 2, article 14, by providing that an amend¬ 
ment to the constitution shall be agreed to by one 
legislature instead of by two successive legisla¬ 
tures chosen at an election of senators. The 
amendment, after it has been agreed to by the 
legislature, shall be submitted to the people at 
the next general election occurring not less than 
six weeks thereafter. The votes cast for any 
amendment shall be equal to a majority of the 
votes cast for governor at the same election or, if 
no governor is then voted for, equal to a majority 
of the votes cast for governor at the next preced¬ 
ing general election at which a governor shall 
have been voted for. No legislature shall pro¬ 
pose in any one year amendments covering more 
than two subjects. A similar provision relative 
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made with regard to the question of a convention 
to revise the constitution. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 230. 


No. 235. By Mr. BERNSTEIN.—Amending sec- 
lion 5, article 4, by providing that the governor, 
lieutenant-governor and chief judge of the court 
of appeals shall constitute a board of pardons, to 
grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after 
conviction. 

To Prisons Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Otner State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 237. 


No. 236. By Mr. BERNSTEIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 2, by providing that laws creating 
or affecting registration and election boards shall 
provide for the appointment or designation of such 
election officers according to merit and fitness to 
be ascertained by competitive examination. The 
provision for bipartisan boards is stricken out. 
The legislature shall amend the existing laws to 
conform to this provision, at its first session after 
the adoption of this constitution. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 238. 


No. 237. By Mr. DONOVAN.—Adding a new 
section providing for the appointment by the gov¬ 
ernor of a state civil service commission of three 
members, one of whom shall be a member of the 
party casting the highest number of votes at the 
last gubernatorial election, one a member of the 
party casting the next highest number of votes at 
such election, and one an employee from the 
classified competitive service of the state for at 
least three years. The appointments shall be for 
three years and must be confirmed by the senate. 
But commissioners first appointed shall hold office 
respectively for one, two and three years. 

To Civil Service Com. 

May 27. Referred .to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 239. 


No. 238. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
2, article 1, by providing that in all trials for 
felonv, the jury, if its verdict is against the ac¬ 
cused, shall also fix, within the limits prescribed 
by statute, the punishment which the court, in 
the exercise of its discretion, may reduce but not 
enlarge. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 240. 


No. 239. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that the legislature may, 
by laAV, abolish, limit, change, amend or otherwise 
regulate the grand jury system, and authorizing 
the legislature to provide for holding persons to 
answer for criminal offenses on information of a 


public prosecuting officer, or after examination 
and commitment by a magistrate. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 241. 


No. 240. By Mr. CLEARWATER.—Amending 
section 12, article 6, by increasing from $10,000 to 
$15,000 the annual salary from the state of a 
supreme court justice. Justices assigned to the 
appellate division in the third and fourth depart¬ 
ments shall receive a like sum, the provision for 
additional payments to such justices being 
stricken oiit. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 242. 


No. 241. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 13, article C, by providing that the governor 
or lieutenant-governor shall not exercise his office, 
after articles of impeachment against him shall 
have been preferred to the senate, until he shall 
have been acquitted, j^rovided after impeachment 
the assembly by the vote of two-thirds of the 
members thereof elected shall declare against such 
exercise. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 243. 


No. 242. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 4, by providing that in case upon 
impeachment the governor shall have been de¬ 
prived of the right to exercise his office the 
powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon 
the lieutenant-governor for the residue of the 
term. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 244. 


No. 243. By Mr. LINDSAY.—Amending section 
29, article 3, by providing that no political divi¬ 
sion of the state or any public institution owned 
or managed and controlled by any such political 
division shall be compelled to purchase the prod¬ 
ucts of convict labor. 

To Prisons Com. 

Printed No. 245. 


No. 244. By Mr. LINDSAY.—Amending section 
2, article 3, and section 6, article 10, by increasing 
from two to four years the term of senators, and 
from one to two years the term of assembl^inen. 
The legislature shall meet every two years begin¬ 
ning in 1917. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 246. 


MAY 19 

No. 245. By IMr. C. A. WEBBER.—Adding new 
section to article 3, reading: “Whenever a bill 
is passed curtailing the term of or abolishing any 
office during the term of the incumbent thereof, 
the duties of said office, in whole or in part, shall 







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not be transferred to any one appointed, directly 
or indirectly by the legislature passing it.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 248. 


No. 246. By Mr. BEEKI.—Amending sections 
1, 2, 3, article 5, and adding a new section 10, by 
providing that the legislature may, in 1918, and 
not oftener than each fourth year thereafter, pro¬ 
vide for the election of any or all of these officers: 
Secretary of state, treasurer, attorney-general, 
state engineer and surveyor, superintendent of 
public works and commissioner of labor. If such 
provision be made they shall be elected at the 
time the governor and lieutenant-governor are 
elected and shall hold office for two years. If in 
each fourth year no provision is made for their 
election then and on January 1, 1917, they shall 
be appointed by the governor to hold office until 
the end of his term. The commissioner of labor 
shall be charged with the execution of all laws 
relating to labor, and shall acquire and diffuse 
among the people useful information on subjects 
connected with labor and the means of promoting 
their material, social, intellectual and moral pros¬ 
perity. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

May 20. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion only. 

Printed No. 249. 


No. 247. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Adding new 
section to article 2 , reading: “The Legislature 
shall provide for the registration without per¬ 
sonal appearance of citizens entitled to vote, who 
are federal employees or commercial travelers, or 
are regularly employed on railroad trains, and 
who shall have been absent from the county in 
which they reside on the day or days designated 
for registration.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

Julv 15. Reported amended by substitute bill. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

July 28. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 250, 742. 


No. 248. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by including the development of 
water power and the transmission of electricity, 
or either, among the public uses for which private 
property may be taken. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 2. Amended and recommitted. 

June 3. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed Nos. 251, 400. 


No. 249. By Mr. OLCOTT.—Adding a new arti¬ 
cle, abolishing the first- and second district public 
service commissions after January 31, 1916, and 
transferring their jurisdiction, powers and duties 
to two new commissions, which are created, one 
for the first district, comprising New York, Bronx, 
Kings, Queens and Richmond counties, and one for 
the second district, comprising all the other coun¬ 
ties. Each commission shall have five members. 


appointed by the governor, with the consent of the’ 
senate. The present commissioners are to con¬ 
tinue as members of the new commissions until the 
expiration of their terms. Not more than three 
commissioners of each commission shall belong to 
the same political party. The commissions are to 
have exclusive original jurisdiction and power to 
determine and fix just and reasonable rates, 
charges and standards of equipment and service. 
The legislature may from time to time enact laws 
enlarging the jurisdiction, powers and duties of 
the commissions. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 24. Amended and recommitted. 

July 28. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
706.) 

Printed Nos. 252, 718. 

No. 250. By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Amending section 
1, article 3, by providing that the legislative 
power shall not be delegated or surrendered, ex¬ 
cept to the people. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 253. 


No. 251. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Amending 
section 14, article 6,. by providing that county 
courts shall have original jurisdiction in actions 
for the recovery of money only where the defend¬ 
ants reside in the county and in which the com¬ 
plaint demands judgment for not exceeding $5,000 
instead of $2,000, as at present. The existing city 
court of New York city is continued with the 
present number of justices elected at the times, 
for the terms and at the salaries now provided 
for by law. The city court shall have original 
jurisdiction in civil actions for the recovery of 
money only in which the complaint demands judg¬ 
ment for not exceeding $5,000, and shall also 
have the powers and jurisdiction it now possesses. 
The legislature may abolish the court of general 
sessions of New York county. In that event all 
actions shall be transferred to the supreme court, 
and the judges shall be supreme court justices 
for the trial of criminal causes only within New 
York and Bronx counties. Their successors are to 
be supreme court justices. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 254. 


No. 252. By Mr. DUNMORE.—^Amending sec¬ 
tion 17, article 6, by providing that justices of 
the peace and district court justices may be 
elected in the different cities with such jurisdic¬ 
tion as to subject matter and as to territory as 
are or shall be prescribed by law. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 255. 


No. 253. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 6, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture shall not hereafter confer upon .any inferior 
or local court of its creation any jurisdiction out¬ 
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where it is in a municipal subdivision comprising 
territory lying in more than one county. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 256. 

No. 254. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 12, by providing that the legislature 
may create as well as provide for the organization 
of cities and villages, and may also delegate to 
cities such power of local legislation and admin¬ 
istration, subject to the general laws of the state 
applicable to all cities or all cities of a class, as 
it may, from time to time, deem expedient. All 
cities shall have exclusive power to fix the num¬ 
ber and compensation of city employees and offi¬ 
cers except judicial officers and members of local 
authorities having general power to determine 
salaries of city officers and employees, and of 
employees of a county wholly within the city 
with certain exceptions. 

To Cities Com. 

•lune 25. Amended and recommitted. 

July 30. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 5. Cities Com. bill introduced. (See liit. 

712.) 

Aug. 11. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 257, 721, 774. 797. 

No. 255. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 20, article 6, by providing that no one shall 
be eligible to a judicial office except justice of the 
peace or, in Hamilton county, the office of county 
judge or surrogate, who is not an attorney and 
counselor of this state. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 258. 

No. 256. By Mr. COBB.—Amending section 
18, article 6, by providing that the legislature 
shall not confer upon any inferior or local court 
jurisdiction where the sum demanded in the com¬ 
plaint exceeds $2,000. Inferior local courts may 
have such territorial jurisdiction as the legisla¬ 
ture may prescribe. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 259. 

No. 257. By Mr. COBB.—Amending sections 1 
and 2, article 14, by providing that an amend¬ 
ment to the constitution proposed by the legisla¬ 
ture must be ratified by a majority of the electors 
voting at the election, instead of voting on the 
amendment. The question whether there shall be 
a constitutional convention shall be submitted to 
the electors at such times as the legislature may 
by law provide, and in any event at each general 
election next ensuing the expiration of a period 
of twenty successive calendar years since the last 
previous submission of such question. The con¬ 
stitution or amendments thereto submitted by the 
convention must be approved by a majority of 
the electors voting thereon. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 260. 

No. 258. By IMr. GREEN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 5. providing for the retirement on 
half pay of civil war veterans employed for a 
continuous period of ten years or more in the 
civil service of the state, and who shall have 
reached the age of seventy years, or if employed 
in manual labor, upon becoming incapacitated. 


The amount paid to a retired veteran shall not 
exceed $1,000 a year. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Printed No. 261. 

No. 259. By Mr. BETTS.—Amending section 4, 
article 3, by abolishing the decennial state census, 
providing that after a reapportionment of senate 
districts by the legislature at the first session 
after the return of the state enumeration of 1915, 
senate districts shall thereafter be rearranged fol¬ 
lowing each United States census. If the popula¬ 
tion of a portion of a political subdivision pro¬ 
posed to be included in a senate district be not 
ascertainable from the United States census re¬ 
turns, the legislature may provide for a local enu¬ 
meration thereof. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 262. 


MAY 20 

No. 260. By Mr. COLES.— Amending section 
17, article 6, by providing that the legislature 
may prescribe qualifications for justices of the 
peace. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 263. 

No. 261. By Mr. WEED.—Amending section 6, 
article 1, by providing that no private property 
shall be injured for public use without just com¬ 
pensation. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 264. 

No. 262. By Mr. REEVES.—Amending gener¬ 
ally article 6, relative to the judiciary, by elimi¬ 
nating courts of special or limited jurisdiction by 
the absorption of the surrogates’ and city courts 
into the supreme court and of municipal courts 
into a county court, both of general jurisdiction 
and each with divisional parts; providing for the 
appointment of masters or supreme court commis¬ 
sioners by the appellate division and making 
other provisions. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 265. 

No. 263. By Mr. HEYMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 5, by providing that honorably dis¬ 
charged soldiers, sailors and marines who served 
in the volunteer army and navy of the United 
States during the Spanish war, as well as vet¬ 
erans of the Civil war, and those who have 
served seven years or more in the national guard 
or naval militia, shall not be removed from posi¬ 
tions in the civil service except for incompetency 
or misconduct shown, after a hearing upon due 
notice upon stated charges, with the right in any 
such appointee to review by certiorari. 

To Civil Service Com. 

June 3. Referred to Military Affairs Com. for 
its opinion. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Sept. 2. Military Affairs Com. report recom¬ 
mended that no change be made in Consti¬ 
tution on the subject. 

Printed No. 266. 




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No. 264. By Mr. MANN.—Amending section 2, 
article 7, -by adding at the end thereof, “All 
funds required for the maintenance and conduct 
of the state government shall be obtained by the 
levy of a direct tax, in the manner provided by 
law, on all real property, to be assessed at its 
full value, and shall be payable to the state 
treasurer by the respective civil divisions of the 
state in proportion to the value of the real prop¬ 
erty of the respective civil divisions not lawfully 
exempt from taxation.” 

To Taxation Com. 

June 23. Reference changed to Finance Com. 

Also referred to Taxation Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 267. 

No. 265. By Mr. MANN.—^Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that the fixed compen¬ 
sation of any public official within any civil divi¬ 
sion, in addition to those mentioned in section 9, 
shall not be increased or diminished during the 
time for which he shall have been elected. The 
compensation of all public officials within the 
civil service paid wholly out of the treasury of 
any civil division of the state shall be fixed 
solely by the lawful authorities of such civil divi¬ 
sions without interference by the legislature. 

To Civil Service Com. 

May 26. Referred to Cities Com. for its 
opinion. 

June 9. Referred to County, Town and Vil¬ 
lage Gov’t Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 268. 


No. 266. By Mr. MANN.—Amending section 
20, article 3, by providing that the legislature 
shall not appropriate any of the public moneys 
or property for local or private purposes. At 
present two-thirds of the members elected to each 
branch of the legislature may make such appro¬ 
priation. 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 269. 


No. 267. By Mr. MANN.—Amending section 6, 
article 1, by providing that no person shall be 
held to answer for a capital or other infamous 
crime unless after a hearing before a judicial tri¬ 
bunal as well as on presentment or indictment of 
a grand jury. No person shall be compelled in 
any criminal case to be a witness against him¬ 
self, though his failure to testify at the trial 
may be considered by the jury and judge. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 270. 


No. 268. By Mr. ]\IANN.—Amending section 
2, article 1, by providing that a jury trial may 
be waived by the parties in all cases, except capi¬ 
tal cases. The legislature shall enact laws fixing 
the number or proportion of the whole jury to 
determine a verdict in all civil and criminal cases. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
'Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 271. 


No. 269. By Mr. MARSHALL.— Repealing sec¬ 
tion 5, article 4, and amending sections 11 and 12 
of article 8, by requiring the legislature to pro¬ 
vide for a state board of pardons to consist of 
three members which in addition to such other 
powers as the legislature may prescribe shall have 
the power to grant reprieves, commutations and 
pardons after conviction for all oft'enses except 
treason and in cases of impeachment, upon such 
conditions and with such restrictions and limita¬ 
tions as* the board may think proper. Upon 
conviction for treason it may stay execution till 
the legislature shall next convene and either grant 
a pardon, commutation or further reprieve or 
direct execution of sentence. Uutil appointed the 
powers of the board shall be vested in the governor 
as at present. 

To Prisons Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

July 29. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 465.. 

Printed Nos. 272, 771. 


No. 270. By Mr. PARSONS.—^Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, creating a state department of 
industry headed by an industrial board of five 
members appointed by the governor with the con¬ 
sent of the senate for ten years each except that 
the first members shall be appointed for two, four, 
six, eight and ten years respectively. Not more 
than three members at any time shall belong to 
the same political party. Their salary shall be 
$6,000 a year. They may be removed only by im¬ 
peachment. They shall have jurisdiction of all 
matters now comprehended within the labor and 
workmen’s compensation laws and of the admin¬ 
istration and enforcement of all laws relating to 
cognate subjects. No bill shall be passed devolving 
such jurisdiction on any other authorities but the 
legislature may enact laws for the organization 
and general direction of such board and confer 
powers and regulation thereon. 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

June 18. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 273. 


No. 271. By Mr. DONOVAN.—Adding a new 
section to article 2 requiring every qualified 
elector to register for and vote at every election. 
Appropriate laws for enforcing these provisions 
shall be enacted by the legislature. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 274. 


No. 272. By I\Ir. VANDERLYN.—Amending 
section 1, article 12, requiring the legislature to 
provide that no funded debt’ hereafter created by 
municipalities or other subdivisions of the state 
shall be refunded. Provision shall be made 'how- • 
ever for the payment of the principal and interest 
of such debt, payable in instalments, at the time 
when the same shall become due, and in case such 
debt is not payable in instalments that a sinking 
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will be necessary to pay the debt when it becomes 
due. 

To County, Town, Village Government Com. 
May 25. Referred to Cities Com. for its 
opinion. 

Printed No. 275. 


No. 273. By Mr. OSTRANDER.—Amending 
section 20, article 6, by striking out from the pro¬ 
vision that no judicial officer shall receive fees the 
exception in favor of justices of the peace, and 
providing that no person shall hereafter be elected 
or appointed to any judicial office except that of 
justice of peace, who is not an attorney and coun¬ 
selor. No court of appeals judge or supreme court 
justice or county judge or surrogate hereafter 
elected or appointed in any county shall practice 
as an attorney or counselor or act as referee. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 276. 


No. 274. By Mr. FOBES.—Amending section 
7, article 6, by providing that the court of appeals 
shall consist of a chief judge and nine associate 
judges now serving as such. The designated judges 
shall hold their offices for the full term for which 
they were respectively elected supreme court jus¬ 
tices. On this provision going into effect their 
respective terms as supreme court justices shall 
expire. The provision for the designation of ad¬ 
ditional judges by the governor is stricken out. 
The legislature shall fix the salaries of the judges 
to be at least equal to that paid any other judicial 
officers. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 3. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 277, 409. 


No. 275. By Mr. R. B. SiMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 17, article 3, by providing that no law shall be 
enacted which provides that any existing law or 
part thereof is or shall be deemed a part of said 
act. The provision is stricken out that no law 
shall be enacted which shall enact that any exist¬ 
ing law or part thereof shall be applicable except 
by inserting it in such act. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 18. Amended and recommitted. 

July 8. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 19. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 278, 700. 


No. 276. By Mr. SCHURMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 2, 3 and 4 of article 3, section 1, article 14, 
by providing that after January 1, 1917, the sen*- 
ate shall consist of six senators to be chosen by 
the. electors of the entire state and 18 senators to 
be chosen in senate districts. The terms of all 
senators shall be four years except that the terms 
of three of the senators at large first elected shall 
be two years. No county shall have two or more 
senators unless they have a full ratio for each 
senator. At present it may have four or more 
senators. No county shall have more than one- 
third of all senators chosen by districts. The ratio 
for apportioning senators shall be obtained by 


dividing the number of inhabitants, excluding 
aliens by 18 instead of 50 as at present 

To Legislative Organization Com. Also to 
Future Amendments Com. for its opinion. 
June 10. Reported adversely. Consideration 
of report postponed to June 15. 

June 15. Action postponed to June 24. 

June 24. Consideration of adverse report re¬ 
ferred to Com. of the Whole. 

July 7. Recommitted. 

Printed No. 279. 


No. 277. By Mr. RODENBECK.—Amending 
section 1, article 6, requiring the legislature to 
provide for p^id adopt a plan of classification and 
arrangement of the subjects of. the law for use in 
revision, consolidation and indexing of the sta¬ 
tutes and the digesting and indexing of the judi¬ 
cial decisions of the state; also to provide for the 
publication of rules of court. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 280. 


No. 278. By Mr. RODENBECK.—Amending 
section 2, article 1, authorizing the legislature to 
provide for a trial otherwise than by a jury of 
civil commercial causes, civil actions not triable 
by a jury prior to April 20, 1777, and civil actions 
wherein relief triable by jury prior to said date 
is united with relief not so triable. The legisla¬ 
ture may however authorize the court to direct 
any question of fact in any civil action to be tried 
by a jury. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 281. 


No. 279. By Mr. LINDSAY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 1, by abolishing the peacemakers 
court of the Tonawanda nation and the peacemak¬ 
ers courts and surrogates’ courts of the Seneca 
nation and vesting all jurisdiction of such courts 
in the courts of this state and transferring all 
actions and proceedings then pending to state 
courts. 

To Indian Relations Com. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. • 

Printed No. 282. 


No. 280. By Mr. J. L. O’BRIAN.— Inserting a 
new article 12 in place of article 12, in order to 
regulate legislation concerning cities and villages 
and guarantee to them the right of municipal self- 
government. Cities shall have power to make 
laws relating to local affairs and property of the 
city, the acquisition, care, management and use 
of its streets and its property, including public 
utilities and the government and regulation of 
the conduct of its inhabitants and protection of 
their property, safety, health, comfort and general 
welfare, together with other specified matters. 
Each village shall have the power conferred upon 
cities provided, however, that the legislature may 




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by general laws, applying to all villages, limit or 
restrict the powers of villages. 

. T« Cities Com. 

June 4. Kef erred to Taxation Com. for opin¬ 
ion. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Printed No. 283. 


MAY 21 

No. 281. By Mr. AD AIMS.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that no laws chall be 
made denying to civil service employees of the 
state or of any city the privilege of membership 
in any organization of civil service employees not 
affiliated with an outside organization imposing 
a duty upon them to engage in any strike or to 
assist in any strike against the United States or 
in any of the states, and having for its object 
improvements in the condition of labor including 
hours and compensation and leaves of absence 
or the presenting of any grievance to the legis¬ 
lature or to any state or city department. Mem¬ 
bership in such organization shall not constitute 
a cause for reduction in rank or compensation or 
removal from public service. The right of civil 
service employees to petition the legislature or 
any member thereof or any city official or to fur¬ 
nish information to the governor or any legisla¬ 
tive committee or public official shall not be 
denied or interfered with. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 284. 


No. 282. By Mr. MANN.— Amending section 
7, article 1, by adding at the end thereof “ The 
legislature may also authorize cities to restrict 
the use of land within its boundaries and com¬ 
pensate the owners for any damage resulting 
from such restriction and assess the property 
benefited.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Cities Com. 
for its opinion. 

Printed No. 285. 

No. 283. By Mr. MANN.— Amending section 
24, article 3, by providing that “ All taxes, in¬ 
cluding fees for licenses and permits, imposed or 
levied by the state or any civil division thereof, 
shall be payable into the respective public treas¬ 
uries of such civil division where and in which 
they are collectible, and the right to levy or im¬ 
pose such taxes shall not be granted or delegated 
to any person, association, firm or corporation; 
nor the right to recover penalties for the viola¬ 
tion of any statutes or ordinances. All acts now 
in force violative of this provision are hereby de¬ 
clared void.” 

To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 286 

No. 284. By Mr. MANN.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by giving Spanish war veterans the 
same preference in appointment to civil service 
as is now had by Civil war veterans. Neither 
the Civil war nor Spanish-American war veterans, 
however, shall have any preferential privileges in 
the promotion or retention of such service and 


shall be subject to all rules which shall affect all 
civil service employees uniformly. The legis¬ 
lature shall provide judicial tribunals for hear¬ 
ing and disposing of all charges and complaints 
ah'ecting civil service employees. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 287. " 

No. 285. By Mr. MANN.—^Adding new section 
to article 2, reading: “The Legislature shall 
provide for the registration without personal ap¬ 
pearance of citizens entitled to vote, who are 
federal employees or commercial travelers, or are 
regularly employed on railroad trains, and who 
shall have been absent from the county in which 
they reside on the day or days designated for 
registration.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 15. Reported amended by substitute bill. 
To Com. of the Whole. 

July 28. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 288, 742. 

No. 286. By Mr. PARSONS.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 1, 4 and 6, article 2, by providing that 
voters may only vote where they have their do¬ 
micile and that they must be a resident of the 
district six months instead of 90 days next pre¬ 
ceding an election. Registration shall take place 
150 days before election. Requirement of bi¬ 
partisan boards of registration is eliminated. 

To Suffrage Com. 

May 25. Reported amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 289, 298. 

No. 287. By Mr. MEIGS.— Amending section 
1, article 2, by increasing from 90 days to five 
years the time a person must be a citizen of the 
United States, to make him a voter. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 290. 

No. 288. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 27, article 3, by providing that the legis¬ 
lature may delegate to boards of supervisors 
powers of local legislation and administration. At 
present the legislature shall by general law con¬ 
fer upon supervisors such powers. 

To County, Town and Village Gov’t Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int 
721.) 

Printed No. 291. 

No. 289. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 28, article 3, by striking out the present 
provisions and providing that “no extra compen¬ 
sation shall be granted or allowed to any public 
officer, servant, apnt or contractor, by the state 
or any civil division thereof or by any board, 
officer or other agency of the state, or of any 
such civil division.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 3. Amended and recommitted. 

June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 19. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision re¬ 
port tabled. 

Aug. 17. Revision Com. report taken from 
table and adopted. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Aves 132. Noes 4. 

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No. 290. By Mr. K. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 10, article 3, by providing that a majority 
of the members elected to each house of the legis¬ 
lature shall constitute a quorum, instead of a 
majority of each house as at present. If the lieu¬ 
tenant-governor become governor, the temporary 
president shall become lieutenant-governor for the 
residue of the term. If the lieutenant-governor 
be impeached or be unable to discharge the duties 
of the office or be acting governor, the temporary 
president shall act as lieutenant-governor during 
such impeachment or inability or while the lieu¬ 
tenant-governor is acting governor. If the lieu¬ 
tenant-governor refuse to act as president or be 
absent from the chair, the temporary president 
shall preside. If the speaker of the assembly be 
unable to perform the duties of the office or be 
acting governor, the assembly may choose a 
temporary speaker. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

;May 27. Keported amended and recommitted. 

June 18. Amended and recommitted. 

July 7. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 12. To third reading. 

Aug. 30. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 132. Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 293, 362, 699, 841. 

No. 291. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Adding a 
new section to article 3 and amending section 4, 
article 4, by providing that the legislature may of 
its own motion in the manner to be provided by 
continuing rule which shall continue in force 
until abrogated or amended by both the Senate 
and the Assembly, convene to take action in the 
matter of removal of a judge of the court of 
appeals or justice of the supreme court. The 
Assembly may, of its own motion in the manner 
to be provided by continuing rule which shall 
continue in force until abrogated or amended by 
the Assembly, convene for the purposes of im¬ 
peachment. No other subjects shall be acted on 
at such meetings. At extraordinary sessions con¬ 
vened by the Governor, only subjects recom¬ 
mended by him may be considered. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com. for 
opinion. 

July 8. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

July 19. To third reading. 

Julv 30. Amended, 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision Com. 
report tabled. 

Aug. 17. Revision Com. report adopted. 

Aug. 18. Amended. 

Aug.’31. Passed. Ayes 142. Noes 1. 

Printed Nos. 294, 734, 775, 798, 819. 

No. 292. By Mr. LEGGETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article" 1, by providing that laws may be 
enacted prescribing a jury less than 12 in num¬ 
ber and permitting a defendant to consent to be 
tried by a jury of less than the prescribed num¬ 
ber and to waive a jury trial. In civil cases the 
present right to trial by jury shall continue un¬ 
til it is otherwise prescribed by law and no 
longer. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 295. 


No. 293. By Mr. LEGGETT.— Adding a new 
section to article 4, reading: “ On and after 
January 1, 1917, the advice and consent of the 
senate shall not be requisite for the validity of 
any appointments by the governor and all persons 
appointed to office thereafter by him shall hold 
tlieir office at the pleasure of the governor.” 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

716.) 

Printed No. 296. 

No. 294. By Mr. TUCK.— Amending section 
6, article 3, by increasing from $1,500 to $3,000 
the salary of a senator and from $1,500 to $2,500 
the salary of an assemblyman, and providing 
that <;he members of either house shall receive 
the) ^ actual transportation expenses in going to 
and returning from their place of meeting once 
in each two weeks of the session, payment thereof 
to be made on proof of actual disbursement. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No., 297. 


MAY 25 

No. 295. By Mr. BANNISTER.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by providing that no waters of 
the state, whether owned by the state or not, shall 
at any time be polluted by any poisonous sub¬ 
stances thrown into or allowed to run into any 
waters or by any substances that may be or may 
become injurious to the health of the people or to 
fish life inhabiting the waters, or injurious to the 
propagation of fish therein. 

To Conservation Com. 

July 39. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 

708.) 

Printed No. 299. 

No. 296. By Mr. BRENNER.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 12, article 1, by abolishing inchoate rignt or 
dower and providing that dower shall exist only 
in the lands and tenements of which the husband 
is seized at the time of his death. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 300. 

No. 297. By Mr. M. SAXE.—Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that “ in order to main¬ 
tain a proper standard of efficiency there shall be 
established a system of retirement and annuities 
for state civil service employees.” 

To Civil Service Com. 

Printed No. 301. 

No. 298. By Mr, BERNSTEIN.—Amending 
section 4, article 3, by providing that reappor¬ 
tionment of senate districts shall be based upon 
the enumeration of the citizen population instead 
of inhabitants, excluding aliens. The provision 
that no county shall have four or more senat-'rs 
unless it has a full ratio for each senator, and 
that no county shall have more than one-third of 
all senators, and that no two counties or territory 
thereof which are adjoining counties or which are 
separated only by public waters, shall have more 
than one-half of all the senators, is stricken out. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 302. 

No. 299. By Mr. BERNSTEIN.—Amending 
sections 1 and 2 , article 3, providing for a uni- 





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cameral legislature composed of a senate of one 
hundred members, two to be elected from each 
senate district, one for two years and the other 
for one year. The salary of senators shall be 
$3,000. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

June 10. Reported adversely. Consideration 
of report postponed to June 15. 

June 15. Action postponed to June 24. 

June 24. No action taken. 

Printed No. 303. 

No. 300. By Mr. DUNLAP.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 16 to article 8, reading: “The legislature 
shall provide for the maintenance and support of 
a State Department of Health.” (Introduced at 
the request of the New York State Medical So¬ 
ciety. ) 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 304. 

No. 301. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 18, article 6, by authorizing the legislature 
to provide that the territorial jurisdiction of in¬ 
ferior local courts be coextensive with the county, 
or if the county be wholly included in a city, with 
the city, in which it is now or may hereafter be 
established. But no civil jurisdiction in other 
respect shall hereafter be conferred upon such 
courts except by general law. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 305. 

No. 302. By Mr. GLADDING.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 1 to 13, article 6, by unifying the court of 
appeals with the supreme court and making the 
court of appeals a division of the supreme court, 
which shall consist of a trial division, an appel¬ 
late division and the court of appeals. The ap¬ 
pellate division and the court of appeals division 
shall have such jurisdiction as may be conferred 
by the legislature. The court of appeals division 
shall consist of 7 justices. The court of appeals 
judges now in office shall serve in the new court 
for the remainder of their term. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 306. 

No. 303. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 24, article 3, by providing that every law 
which imposes, continues or revives a direct state¬ 
wide tax, instead of a tax as now provided, shall 
distinctly state the amount of the tax and the 
object to which it is to be applied. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Taxa¬ 
tion Com. for its opinion. 

June 17. Reference changed to Finance Com. 

Printed No. 307. 


No. 304. By Mr. BETTS.— Amending section 
9, article 4, by giving the Governor 40 days in¬ 
stead of 30 days as at present after the adjourn¬ 
ment of the Legislature in which to approve or 
reject bills left with him at the close of the 
Legislature. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 308. 


No. 305. By Mr. KIRBY.— Amending section 
6, article 1, by permitting judgment to be pro¬ 
nounced upon a plea of guilty before a com¬ 
mitting magistrate without indictment by a grand 
jury in such manner as the Legislature may pre¬ 
scribe, where the person is charged with a crime 
punishable by imprisonment for not more than 
ten years. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

, Printed No. 309. 


MAY 26 

No. 306. By Mr. McKINNEY.—Amending 
section 3, article 6, by providing “ Every pre¬ 
sumption is in favor of the validity of the acts 
of the Legislature, and the court shall not hold 
such acts to be void unless invalidity shall be 
established beyond a reasonable doubt. No act 
of the Legislature shall be annulled by any court 
of this state except with the concurrence of all 
the judges sitting in the cause in which the valid¬ 
ity of the act is questioned.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 310. 


No. 307. By Mr. RYAN.— Amending section 
17, article 6, by providing that city magistrates 
as well as justices of the peace and judges of 
inferior courts not of record, may be removed for 
cause after notice and opportunity o*f being heard 
and the term of office for which such magistrates 
and judges shall have been elected or appointed 
shall not be abridged in any other manner. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 311. 


No. 308. By Mr. REEVES.— Repealing article 
6 and inserting a new article 6 by providing that 
after January 1, 1917, the judicial power of the 
state shall be vested in the court for the trial of 
impeachment, the court of appeals hereby con¬ 
tinued, the supreme court hereby continued, the 
superior court hereby established and the munici¬ 
pal court hereby established. All other courts 
and judges thereof shall be abolished. The 
court of appeals shall consist of a chief judge 
and nine justices. There shall be eight judi¬ 
cial districts and three departments. The su¬ 
perior court shall have jurisdiction in actions 
involving an amount or values of not more than 
$2,000 and in criminal actions. The municipal 
courts shall have jurisdiction in actions in¬ 
volving an amount or value of not more than 
$500, in summary proceedings to recover the 
possession of real property, to determine actions 
for misdemeanor or lesser offense and to examine 
and hold for trial for felony. There shall be a 
justice or justices of the court in every city of 
over 50,000 not to exceed one for every 50,000 in¬ 
habitants. In other localities there shall be a 
master to be appointed by the presiding justice 
of the department for five years. 

To Judiciary Com. 

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No. 309. By Mr. BRENNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 10, article 6, by providing that the chief 
justice and all judges of the court of appeals and 
supreme court justices not disqualified by age 
limit shall be candidates for re-election for a full 
term and their names shall be placed on the 
ballot or in such other method as the law pro¬ 
vides, unless such judge or justice at least 50 
days before the election shall decline to be a can¬ 
didate. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 313. 

No. 310. By Mr. BRENNER.—Adding new 
section 30 to article 3, reading: “All existing 
exemptions from liability to jury duty are 
abolished, and hereafter there shall be no ex¬ 
emptions from liability to jury duty, except those 
persons or class of persons, during actual em¬ 
ployment, engaged in the maritime service, or in 
the service of the state, or a political subdivision 
thereof, or of the United States, or such addi¬ 
tional persons, or class of persons, as may be 
included in any rule or rules made by the court 
of appeals.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 314. 

No. 311. By Mr. SARGENT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 6, by providing that appellate 
division justices shall have power to fix the times 
and places for holding trial as well as special 
terms. Assignments of justices to hold such 
terms shall hereafter be made by the chief judge 
of the court of appeals and presiding justices of 
the judicial departments. Such assignments shall 
provide for the rotation of justices among the 
several judicial districts, to be so arranged that 
each justice shall hold court in as many separate 
districts as practicable throughout the year. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 315. 

No. 312. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by adding at the end thereof 
“ For water supply purposes, the legislature may 
authorize the use by or sale to any municipal 
corporation of any lands of the state now o%vned 
or hereafter acquired.” 

To Conservation Com. Also to Cities Com. 
for its opinion. 

Julv 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 

^ 708.) 

Printed No. 316. 

No. 313. By Mr. LOW.—Amending sections 26, 
27, article 3, and adding new section thereto, 
amending section 2, article 10, section 1, article 
12, and repealing section 2 of such article and 
inserting a new section 2, by providing that the 
powers of local legislation, government and ad¬ 
ministration conferred by the constitution on a 
county shall vest in the board of supervisors or 
the legislative body of a city, or in pch 
county authorities as the supervisors or legisla¬ 
tive body may determine, subject onlv to legisla¬ 
tive laws of general and uniform application. The 
legislature may by general laws only provide for 
tlie protection" and welfare of state and county, 
citv, tovTi and village employees or by any con- 


j tractor or subcontractor performing public work.. 
The legislature may also fix wages and salaries 
and hours of work of such employees. Incor¬ 
porated cities and villages shall be governed only 
by general laws of uniform application. Subject 
to the constitution and such general laws, each 
city and county shall have exclusive power 
to adopt and amend laws relating to powers, 
duties, mode of selection, terms of office and com¬ 
pensation of all officers and employees, the in¬ 
curring, funding or refunding of its obligations, 
the care and management of its property and 
public institutions. 

To Cities Com. Copy to County, Town and 
Village Govt. Com. 

June 9. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 5. Finance Com. bill introduced. (See 
Int. 712.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed Nos. 317, 535. 

No. 314. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 26, article 3, and section 2, article 12, by pro¬ 
viding that in a city including an entire county 
or two or more counties the legislative body or 
in lieu thereof such city authorities as the legis¬ 
lature may prescribe, shall have exclusive power 
to fix the compensation of all county officers and 
employees, and the number of such employees 
within the city, and to define their powers and 
duties. A law relating to the property and af¬ 
fairs or government of a county or counties 
wholly within a city, referred to either by name 
or description, or within any city if there be not 
more than one such city of the same class, shall 
be deemed a special city law relating to such city. 

To Cities Com. Copy to County, To\vn and 
Village Govt. Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 19. County Government Coin. Bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed No. 318. 

No. 315. By Mr. BARNES.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, prohibiting the legislature from 
passing any bill granting to any class of indi¬ 
viduals any privilege or immunity authorizing 
the expenditure of public money to be paid to 
any person except for services rendered upon em¬ 
ployment by the state or a political division 
thereof, establishing a minimum wage, appro¬ 
priating any public money except in ratifica¬ 
tion of the budget submitted by the state 
finance board, amending the charter of any 
city except on written petition of the mayor 
and common council or similar authorities and 
upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the 
members of each house of the legislature repre¬ 
senting said city in whole or in part, amending 
the charter of any village except on written peti¬ 
tion of the president and trustees and affirmative 
vote of the member or members of each house 
representing said village, conferring upon political 
parties any advantage or preferment over other 
groups of voters in recognition of nominations for 
public office made by them, regulating the rules 
and procedure, the election of party committee¬ 
men and the making of nominations for public 
office by political parties or other groups of voters, 
except to provide for publicity of receipts and ex- 


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penditures and for penalties against fraud and 
corruption within such parties or groups, 
xo Legislative Powers Com. 

May 27. Kef erred to Finance, Industrial Inter¬ 
ests, and Cities Corns., for their opinion. 

May 28. Amended and recommitted. 

July 8. Amended and recommitted. 

July 19. Printed No. 377 amended and recom¬ 
mitted. 

July 22. Substitute bills introduced. (See 
Int. Nos. 699, 700, 701.) 

Aug. 4. Finance Com. bill for State budget 
introduced. (See Int. 709.) 

Printed Nos. 319, 377, 735, 748. 

No. 316. By Mr. OSTRANDER.—Adding a 
new section to article 7 reading: “The legis¬ 
lature shall provide for the speedy determination 
of claims against the state and for prompt pay¬ 
ment of such as shall be found juSt. Where such 
a claim shall be for appropriation of or injury 
to property, the legislature shall provide for 
determination of the loss or damage so caused, 
in the county where the loss or damage occurred.” 
To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 320. 


No. 317. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amt«aiing section 
5, article 3, by striking out the provision that 
the legislature may abolish the county of Hamil¬ 
ton and annex the territory to some other county 
or counties and further amending the section by 
making the number of assemblymen for each 
county the same as that fixed by chapter 27, 
Laws of 1907. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 321. 

No. 318. By Mr. MEIGS.— Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, abolishing exemptions from local 
taxation in favor of any person or corporation 
including a municipal corporation and providing 
for the repayment by the state of local taxes 
hereafter paid on property which would be ex¬ 
empt under present laws. 

To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 322. 

No. 319. By Mr. L. M. MARTIN.—Amending 
section 2, article 10, by providing that all county 
officers whose election or appointment is not pro¬ 
vided for by the constitution shall be elected by 
electors or appointed by the boards of super¬ 
visors instead of by “ supervisors or other county 
authprities as the legislature shall direct,” who 
shall have power to fix their compensation and 
terms of office. Town and village officers shall be 
elected or appointed by the town board of a town 
or trustees of a village who shall fix their terms 
of office and compensation. No county, town or 
village office shall hereafter be created by law 
unless authorized by such county, town or village 
in such manner as the legislature may direct. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Also to Cities Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int, 721.) 

Printed No, 323. 


No. 320. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 23, article 6, by abolishing courts of special 
session after December 31, 1915. Tne jurisdiction 
of such courts shall be vested in justices of the 
peace, police justices and such other magistrates 
as are authorized to hold courts of special session. 
Actions pending in special sessions shall be trans¬ 
ferred to such courts. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 324. 


No. 321. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 1, by striking out the provision that 
the legislature may authorize cities to take more 
land and property than is needed for actual con¬ 
struction in the laying out, widening, etc., of 
parks, public places or streets and that so much 
of such property not needed for public use may be 
sold or leased. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Cities Com. 
for its opinion. 

Printed No. 325. 


No. 322. By Mr. RYAN.—Amending section 7, 
article 1, by providing that in opening, regulating 
or changing the grade of a public street or road, 
the necessity therefor and the damage to be sus¬ 
tained and compensation to be paid shall be first 
letermined by the supreme court, and such damage 
and compensation shall be apportioned £ind paid 
by the persons to be benefited. But the expense 
of the proceedings shall be paid by the state or 
municipal corporation having jurisdiction. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 326. 


No. 323. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 21, article 6, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture shall make provision for the sale of all stat¬ 
utes on reasonable terms. All laws and judicial 
decisions shall be free for publication by any 
person, “ but the expense thereof shall not be 
borne by the public.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 327. 


No. 324. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 17, article 3, by adding at the end thereof 
“ Nor shall any act take effect earlier than the 
first day of October next succeeding its enact¬ 
ment ” by the legislature. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 328. 


No. 325. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 10, by providing that sheriffs in 
counties where the office is salaried, shall be 
eligible for the next term after the termination 
of their offices. At present they are ineligible. 
To County, Town and Village Officers Com 
Printed No. 329. 


No. 326. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 21, article 3 by providing that every law 
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viving an appropriation shall distinctly specify 
llie object to which the appropriation is to be 
applied, instead of the sum appropriated and the 
object to which it is applied. If other than an 
unexpended balance the exact sum appropriated 
shall be specified. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Copy to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

June 15. Reference changed to Finance Com. 

Printed No. 330. 


No. 327. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
sections 11, 12, 13 and 15, article 8, by requiring 
that the state board of charities shall visit all 
societies and associations under either public or 
private control and all societies whether incor¬ 
porated or unincorporated which shelter or other¬ 
wise deal with dependent or delinquent minors 
or those witliout proper guardians, including all 
reformatories and institutions for the mentally 
deficient, including epileptics.* The board shall re¬ 
port annually to the legislature relative to the 
conditions and needs of state institutions, visits 
and in detail the receipts and expenditures of all 
institutions, societies or associations subject to 
visitation. The general fiscal control of state 
charitable and reformatory institutions shall be 
vested in the state comptroller. Each state chari¬ 
table or reformatory institutions shall be man¬ 
aged by a board of seven or more managers ap¬ 
pointed by the governor with the consent of the 
senate. The state board of charities is to con¬ 
sist of not less than one member from each ju¬ 
dicial district. 

To Charities Com. 

June 8. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 5. Motion to discharge Committee tabled. 

Printed No. 331. 


No. 328. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Adding a 
new section 16 to article 8 creating a state com¬ 
mission in lunacy of not less than one member 
from each judicial district to be appointed by the 
governor with the consent of the senate. ^ The 
general fiscal control of state hospitals for the 
insane shall be vested in the state comptroller. 
Each hospital shall be under the control of seven 
or more managers appointed by the governor with 
the senate’s consent. The commissioners in lunacy 
now holding office shall continue for the remain¬ 
der of their term, unless the legislature shall 
otherwise provide. 

To Charities Com. Also to Gov. and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 332. 


No. 329. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Adding a 
new section 17 to article 8, creating a state com¬ 
mission of prisons of not less than one member 
from each judicial district to be appointed by 
the governor with the consent of the senate to 
have charge of all state prisons and other insti¬ 
tutions, except reformatories for the detention of 
sane adults charged or convicted of crime or de¬ 
tained as witnesses or debtors. The fiscal control 
of state prisons shall be vested in the state comp¬ 


troller. Each state prison shall be controlled by 
a board of seven or more managers. 

To Prisons Com. Also to Charities Com. and 
to Gov. and Other State OfiScers Com. for 
their opinion. 

Printed No. 333. 

No. 330. By Mr. CURRAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 5, by providing that the superin¬ 
tendent of public works shall be elected instead 
of appointed. He shall hold office until the end 
of the term of the governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Canals Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 334. 

No. 331. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Amending ar¬ 
ticle 12, by guaranteeing to cities and village* 
the right of self-government. Each city and vil¬ 
lage shall have full power to regulate matter* 
relating to its own property, affairs and govern¬ 
ment and the property, affairs and government of 
one or more counties lying wholly within the city. 
The legislature may by general law applying to 
all villages limit or restrict their powers. Pro¬ 
vision is made for local municipal laws to be sub¬ 
mitted to the electors of the city or village for 
adoption. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Govt, for its opinion. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Printed No. 335. 

No. 332. By Mr. O’CONNOR.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5, by providing for the election of 
a superintendent of insurance, superintendent of 
banks and six public service commissioners to 
hold office for four years and to receive an annual 
salary not exceeding $10,000, to be determined by 
the legislature. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 336. 


MAY 27 

No. 333. By Mr. COLES.—Amending section 6, 
article 1, by providing that no person shall be 
held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous 
crime unless on indictment of a grand jury, in¬ 
stead of “ on presentment or indictment of a 
grand jury ” as at present. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 337. 

No. 334. By Mr. COLES.—Amending section 
20, article 6, by striking out the exception in favor 
of justices of peace from the provision that no 
judicial officer shall receive to his own use any 
fees or perquisites of office. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 338. 

No. 335. By Mr. BUXBAUM.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 3, by providing that in any city em¬ 
bracing more than one entire county, and having 






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no board or boards of supervisors, the members 
of the board of aldermen, or if there be none, the 
members of tlie body exercising powers of such 
aldermen, elected as such within each of the 
several counties of the city, acting as a county 
board for the county within which they have been 
or ihay be elected, shall make the division of such 
counties into assembly districts following the ap¬ 
portionment by the legislature. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 339. 

No. 836. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 2, article 6, by providing that the presiding 
justice of each appellate division, as well as the 
governor, may make temporary designations of 
justices of the supreme court to sit in the appel¬ 
late division and empowering appellate division 
justices to fix the time and places for holding all 
terms and to modify sentences in criminal cases. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 340. 

No. 337. By Mr. BAYES.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 8 reading: “ The stockholders of 

all corporations shall be individually liable for all 
labor performed for such corporation and no legis¬ 
lative enactment limiting the time within which 
an action may be begun for labor so performed, at 
a shorter period than applicable to contract 
actions generally, shall be valid.” 

To Corporations Com. 

July 29. Com. reported that no change in Con¬ 
stitution should be made on the subject. 

Printed No. 341. 

No. 338. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Amending 
sections 15, 20, 21 and 24 of article 3, by provid¬ 
ing that no bill appropriating money shall be 
passed under an emergency message from the 
governor, that such bill shall be upon the desks 
of the members in final form at least three legis¬ 
lative days prior to its final passage; that the 
assent of two-thirds of the members elected to 
each branch of the legislature shall be necessary 
to pass a bill carrying an appropriation for state 
purposes when less than the whole of the state is 
to be directly or mainly benefited by the expendi¬ 
ture of the money, except appropriations for the 
repair and maintenance of the canals or the 
support or construction of state institutions; that 
in stating the object of an appropriation or item 
of an appropriation, if it be for a state depart¬ 
ment or a state institution, it shall not be suffi¬ 
cient to include therein under general language 
two or more separable objects, whether related or 
not, but each such object and the exact sum ap¬ 
propriated therefor shall be specified as a distinct 
item; that appropriations shall lapse after one 
year instead of two years as at present; and that 
a law which imposes a direct state-wide tax shall 
provide for the levying thereof on a basis of the 
actual valuation of the taxable property of the 
state to be ascertained, pursuant to law by desig¬ 
nated state officials independently of local 
assessors. 

To Finance Com. 

•Tune 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 342. 


No. 339. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Amending 
section 6, article 7, by preventing the accrual of 
contract debts against the state including, a claim 
for salary, unless there be an appropriation to 
pay the same in full at the time the claim is al¬ 
leged to have accrued. 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 343. 

No. 340. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Amending 
article 7 by adding new section providing that 
the state shall issue serial bonds to provide 
moneys for public improvements hereafter author¬ 
ized, the debt to be wholly extinguished at the 
expiration of the estimated life of the improve¬ 
ment and not beyond fifty years from the date 
the first bond was issued. A direct tax shall be 
levied annually to pay the interest on the debt as 
it falls due and at appropriate intervals to pay 
each instalment of such debt as it becomes due. 
But the legislature may appropriate out of any 
funds of the treasury moneys to pay the accruing 
interest or instalment of principal in any year in 
lieu of such direct tax. 

10 Finance Com. Also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 344. 

No. 341. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.— Adding new 
section to article 5, requiring every state depart¬ 
ment or commission head and every other officer 
in the governing body of each state institution in 
December of each year to submit to the Governor 
a statement under oath of desired appropriations, 
accompanied by facts and comparisons in support 
jf their requests. The Governor shall transmit the 
same to the Legislature in January with his 
recommendations. 

To Finance Com. 

June 16. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

. , Printed No. 345. 

No. 342. By Mr. WAGNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 24, article 3, by providing that whenever a 
law heretofore or hereafter passed levying a di¬ 
rect tax provides for the collection of a sum of 
money in excess of what is necessary for the full 
accomplishment of the object of the tax, the State 
oomptroller shall nevertheless raise and collect 
only such sum as is necessary, and for that pur¬ 
pose, he shall proportionately lessen the tax rate 
specified in the law. 

To Finance Com. Also to Taxation Com. for its 
opinion. 

Printed No. 346. 

No. 343. By Mr. TANNER.— Amending section 
9, article 4, by authorizing the Governor to reduce 
the amount of any appropriation or item of ap¬ 
propriation in any bill submitted to him for his 
approval while approving of the other portion of 
the bill. 

To Finance Com. Also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

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No. 344. By Mr. SHIPMAN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 11, article 8, by making the state hospital 
commission a constitutional body. At present the 
constitution provides for a state commission in 
lunacy. 

To Charities Com. Copy to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 348. 

No. 345. By Mr. WIGGINS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 7, by permitting the state canal 
board to fix, impose and collect tolls on persons 
or property transported on the canals unless the 
Legislature shall otherwise direct. 

To Canals Com. 

Printed No. 349. 

No. 346. By Mr. WIGGINS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 1, by authorizing the legislature to 
provide for the impanelling of additional jurors 
to attend during;^ the trial to fill vacancies which 
for any cause may occur prior to the submission 
of a case to the jury. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 350. 


No. 347. By Mr. HEATON.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 6, by providing that surrogates 
and surrogates’ courts shall have jurisdiction and 
powers granted to them by law; and for the better 
exercise thereof to have all the jurisdiction and 
powers, legal and equitable, now possessed by the 
supreme court, including trial by jury. A sur¬ 
rogate of any county may hold court in any other 
county when requested by the surrogate of such 
other county. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 351. 


No. 348. By Mr. BUNCE.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that the use of private 
lands for the construction and maintenance of 
reservoirs for municipal water supply, or the 
state canals, for the regulation of the flow of 
streams and the development of public water 
power are public uses for which private lands may 
be taken by the state upon just compensation. 
No public property shall be granted to any per¬ 
son or corporation, nor its use allowed for private 
purposes, without just compensation. Water, 
water power, water power sites and lands under 
water owned or controlled by the state in any 
form shall not be sold, granted or given away in 
perpetuity or in any manner removed from public 
ownership. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Finance and 
Taxation Committees for opinions. 

June 3. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 352. 


No. 349. By Mr. ANGELL.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 6, abolishing the court of claims as 
now established, after December 31, 1915, and 
vesting its jurisdiction in the supreme court 
which shall have power to hear and determine all 
claims against the state. The state may be sued 


by citizens of the state and shall be liable in all 
cases where it is now held liable under general 
laws or the principles of the common law. In any 
action brought by the state against a citizen of 
the state, such citizen may set up an alleged 
counter claim against the state. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 353. 


No. 350. By Mr. ANGELL.—Amending article 
1, section 2, by providing that the legislature may 
prescribe that in civil cases a verdict may be re¬ 
turned by not less than three-fourths of the 
jurors. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 354. 


No. 351. By Mr. WOOD.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that civil war vet¬ 
erans shall be entitled to retention over all others, 
in the civil service and that all veterans of the 
Spanish war or Philippine insurrection serving 
prior to July 4, 1902, all members of volunteer fire 
companies honorably discharged after five years 
consecutive service and members of such com¬ 
panies which have been disbanded by the installa¬ 
tion of a paid fire department for at least one year 
prior to such disbandment, shall be entitled to 
preference in promotio.n and retention over all 
others except veterans of the civil war and they 
shall be removed only for incompetency or mis¬ 
conduct proven on a hearing. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. ■ 

Printed No. 355. 


No. 352. By Mr. RODENBECK.—Adding new 
section 9-a to article 6, for the purpose of obviat¬ 
ing new trials by conferring upon the appellate 
courts authority to take evidence and exercise 
such powers as may be necessary to effect a final 
determination of controversies. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 356. 


No. 353. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 2, by providing that the grant of 
the right of suffrage to women shall be made only 
on condition that the amendment to this section 
proposed by the legislature and to be submitted to 
the people in 1915 shall be approved by a majority 
of electors voting thereon, and that in the event of 
such approval a citizen by marriage shall not be 
entitled to vote unless she shall have been an in¬ 
habitant of the United States for five years. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 357. 


No. 354. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that on an indictment 
of a person charged with a felony the people or 
the defendant may cause to be taken the testi¬ 
mony of a witness without the state in such a 
manner as the legislature may prescribe. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 358. 





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No. 355. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Adding new 
section 5, article 3, to replace the present section 
0 , by providing that assembly districts shall be 
in as compact lorm as possible and shall remain 
unaltered until the return of another enumeration 
and shall at all times consist of contiguous terri¬ 
tory. Each senate district shall contain three 
members of assembly. The quotient obtained by 
dividing the whole number of inhabitants of each 
senate district, excluding aliens, shall be the ratio 
for enumeration. Assembly districts shall be as 
far as possible coterminous with the boundaries of 
a county. Every apportionment by the legislature 
shall be subject to review by the court of appeals 
upon the application of the attorney-general or 
of any citizen. 

To.Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 359. 


No. 356. By Mr. ANGELL.—Adding section 13 
to article 7 providing that all funds arising from 
the proceeds of the sale of highway bonds author¬ 
ized to be issued by section 4 which have been ap¬ 
portioned to certain counties in excess of the sums 
required to construct and improve highways there¬ 
tofore determined by general laws to be con¬ 
structed and improved in said counties, shall be 
expended in such counties for the maintenance 
and improvement of other highways therein as 
may be determined by general laws. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 360. 


No. 357. By Mr. BRENNER. Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 1, by providing that no one shall be 
subject to arrest either on mesne or final process 
in any civil action or proceeding, but this shall 
not be construed to forbid the issue of a writ in 
the nature of a writ ne exeat, nor punishment for 
a contempt of court. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciarj 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 361. 


MAY 28 

No 358. By Mr. WAGNER — Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by adding at the end thereof this 
new matter: “ The labor of a human being shall 

not be deemed to be a commodity or article of 
commerce and the Legislature shall not enact a 
law, nor shall the courts construe a law, con¬ 
trary to this declaration.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Industrial 
Interests Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 363. 


No. 359. By Mr. WICKERSHAM.— Amending 
section 2, article 6, by providing that there shall 
be a standing commission on the rules of pro¬ 
cedure in the courts, in which shall be vested ex¬ 
clusive power to establish rules of procedure not 


subject to amendment or abrogation by the legis¬ 
lature. The commission shall be composed of the 
chief judge, and an associate judge of the court 
of appeals selected from time to time by the asso¬ 
ciated judges of the court, the presiding justices 
of the several appellate divisions, a county judge 
from each of the second, third and fourth judi¬ 
cial departments and a surrogate from the first 
judicial department, and four members of the 
bar, one to be designated by the Governor from 
each judicial department. They are to be desig¬ 
nated in December, 1915, and every third year 
thereafter. The commission shall report to the 
legislature annually what changes are required in 
the statutes regarding the organization of courts 
or affecting pleadings, evidence or procedure. The 
legislature shall enact no law upon any such 
subject unless the commission previously shall 
have considered whether any legislation is neces¬ 
sary or desirable. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 364. * 


No. 360. By Mr. TANNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 4, by providing that the governor 
shall have 45 days instead of 30 days after ad¬ 
journment of the Legislature within which to 
act on bills sent to him at the close of the legisla¬ 
tive session. 

To Governor and other State Officers Com. 

July 14. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Printed Nos. 365, 740. 


No. 361. By Mr. LOW.— Adding new section 
7 to article 2 reading: “No national or state 
political party shall nominate municipal officers or 
endorse or promote their candidacy.” 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Gov’t and Suffrage Committees for 
their opinions. 

Printed No. 366. 


No. 362. By Mr. AUSTIN.— Amending section 
2, article 7, by permitting the state to borrow 
for the payment of its debts and expenses, within 
the amounts appropriated therefor for the fiscal 
year, in anticipation of the receipt of taxes and 
revenues, direct or indirect, applicable for the 
payment of such debts or expenses and in an¬ 
ticipation of the sale of bonds. The comptroller 
may issue certificates of indebtedness for moneys 
so borrowed. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int 
705.) 

Printed No. 367. 


No. 363. By Mr. AUSTIN—.Amending section 
5, article 5, by abolishing the commissioners of 
the canal fund and providing that the duties of 
such commissioners shall devolve upon the comp¬ 
troller. The canal board shall consist of com- 






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missioners of the land office and the superin¬ 
tendent of public works. 

To Canals Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. and Finance Com¬ 
mittee for their opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Printed Nos. 368, 760. 

No. 364. By Mr. AUSTIN.— Amending section 
3, article 5, by striking out the provision that 
the superintendent of public works shall appoint 
not more than three assistant superintendents and 
all other persons employed in the care and man¬ 
agement of the canals except collectors of toils 
and those in the department of the State En¬ 
gineer. 

To Governor and other State Officers Com. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 369. 

No. 365. By Mr. BUNCE.— Amending section 
section 17, article 6, by providing that not more 
than one person shall hold the office of justice of 
the peace at one time in any town of less than 
3,500 inhabitants and not more than two persons 
at any one time in any town of more than 3,500 
inhabitants and of not more than 11,000 inhabi¬ 
tants; and not more than 4 persons shall 
hold that office at any one time in any town con¬ 
taining more than 11,000 inhabitants. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 370. 

No. 366. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Amend¬ 
ing sections 11, 13 and 15 of article 8, and repeal 
ing section 12 of article 8, and section 4 of article 

5, by establishing a state board of charities and 
corrections to consist of not less than 9 members, 
appointed by the Governor with the consent of the 
Senate for 9 year terms, except that the first 
appointments shall be made so that there shall 
be one vacancy each year thereafter and such 
board shall have control of state insane hospitals, 
state prisons and reformatories and state chari¬ 
table institutions. The powers and duties of the 
state charities board, commission in lunacy, super¬ 
intendent of state prisons and the state commis¬ 
sion of prisons are transferred to the new board. 

To Governor and other State Officers Com. 
Also to Charities Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 371. 

No. 367. By Mr. SEARS.— Amending section 
18, article 6, by requiring the legislature to estab¬ 
lish uniform courts of limited jurisdiction in all 
cities except New York. The legislature may 
provide that the territorial jurisdiction of such 
courts shall extend throughout the whole or part 
of the counties in which the courts are estab¬ 
lished. It may establish courts of limited juris¬ 
diction for villages and towns. The judges of 
such courts shall not be removed in any manner 
during their terms of office except for cause 
shown and after a hearing. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 372. 

No. 368. By Mr. SEARS.— Amending section 

6, article 1, by providing that no person shall be 
held to answer for a capital crime unless on in¬ 


dictment of a grand jury nor for an otherwise 
infamous crime unless on information of a dis¬ 
trict attorney with the right to preliminary exam¬ 
ination or on indictment of a grand jury. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 373. 

No. 369. By SEARS.— Amending section 2, 
article 1, by providing that a jury trial may be 
waived by the defendant in all criminal cases 
where the maximum punishment provided by law 
does not exceed 5 years imprisonment with or 
without a fine. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 374. 

No. 370. By Mr. DOW.— Amending section 7, 
article 7, by permitting the state by its own 
employees to cut, remove and sell dead or fallen 
timber detrimental to the forest, to sell forest 
preserve lands outside of the Adirondack and 
Catskill Parks excepting lands contiguous to the 
forest preserve within the said parks and forest 
preserve lands adjacent to Lake George. The 
state, when authorized by the legislature, may 
construct roads and trails in the forest preserve. 
The legislature may provide for regulating the 
cutting of timber on privately owned non-arable 
lands within the Adirondack and Catskill Parks. 
The state may use for itself or lease to any city 
or county forest preserve lands for the establish¬ 
ment of hospitals without financial compensation. 
No grant or conveyance of state lands, including 
those under water, or of any waters of the state, 
or the use of any such lands or waters whether 
in fee or a term of years shall be made by the 
legislature or by any state officer except for the 
use of counties or municipalities for hospitals; 
and no such grant or conveyance shall be made 
without the approval of the Governor. The use 
of private lands for the construction and main¬ 
tenance of reservoirs for municipal water supply, 
for state canals and for regulating the flow of 
streams is a public use for which private lands 
may be taken by the state upon just compensation. 

To Conservation Com. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

July 30. Committee bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 375. 


JUNE 2 

No. 371. Bv Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 11, article 8, by providing that the man¬ 
agement and fiscal control of state hospitals for 
the insane (not including institutions for crim¬ 
inals or convicts), shall remain in the state 
commission in lunacy, except in so far as such 
management may now' or hereafter be delegated 
by the legislature to the local boards of managers. 

To Charities Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. .5. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 
718. 

Aug. 24. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 106. Noes 7. 

Printed Nos. 378, 783, 827. 





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No. 372. By Mr. DAHM.— Amending section 
1, article 2 , by providing that in a city embodying 
several counties (New York), four months’ resi¬ 
dence in any county of the city, instead of in the 
county where the elector votes, is sufficient. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 379. 


No. 373. By Mr. MANN.— Amending section 2, 
article 12, by providing that any bill for a special 
law relating to any county within a city the 
boundaries of which county are coterminus with 
a borough of said city, must be transmitted to 
the mayor and borough president for their ap¬ 
proval or rejection. 

To Cities Com. 

Printed No. 380. 

No. 374. By Mr. MANN.— Amending section 1, 
article 12, by adding at the end thereof: “ Cities 

created under this article shall have all other and 
full powers of regulating and governing all their 
affairs, within their respective boundaries, not ex¬ 
pressly forbidden by this constitution.” 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

712.) 

Printed No. 381. 


No. 375. By Mr. BALDWIN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 7, by permitting the state to lease 
forest preserve lands and to cut or remove timber 
thereon for the preservation of such lands or on j 
account of the construction of water storage reser- i 
voirs authorized by the legislature. The care, 
maintenance and regulation of the use of such 
lands and the waters thereon shall vest in a State 
Commission, hereby created, to be known as the 
Conservation Commission, consisting of three com¬ 
missioners appointed by the Governor with the 
consent of the Senate. They shall have power to 
lease parts of forest lands to counties and cities 
for establishing hospitals and to lease camp sites 
not to exceed five acres each to the same lessee 
for not longer than ten years and to sell to mu¬ 
nicipal corporations for water supply purposes 
any lands of the State outside of the forest pre¬ 
serve, except lands occupied by public buildings 
and canal lands. 

To Conservation Com. 

July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed IjTo. 382. 

No. 376. By Mr. FOLEY.— Amending section 
19, article 1, by providing that nothing contained 
in the constitution shall be construed to limit the 
power of the Legislature to enact laws for the 
payment of compensation for occupational diseases 
of employees or for death of employees resulting 
from such diseases. The exception relative to in¬ 
juries occasioned by the wilful intention of the 
injured employee to bring about the injury or 
death of himself or of another or where the injury 
results solely from intoxication of the injured em¬ 
ployee while on duty is stricken out. 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Bill of 
Bights Com. for its opinion. 


Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
714.) 

Printed No. 383. 

No. 377. By Mr. WICKERSHAM.—Amending 
section 14, article 6, by creating a superior court 
of New York city to replace the county courts, 
court of general sessions and the city court of 
New York. Judges of these courts shall be su¬ 
perior court judges for the remainder of their 
term. Their successors shall be elected for a 
term of twelve years. There shall be twenty su¬ 
perior court judges in New York county, eight in 
Kings and two in each of Queens, Bronx and 
Richmond. The jurisdiction over criminal causes 
now exercised by the several county courts and 
the general sessions court shall be vested in the 
superior court, also the jurisdiction in civil 
actions now exercised by the county courts and 
city court. The superior court shall have original 
jurisdiction in actions for the recovery of money 
in which the complaint demands judgment for 
not exceeding $5,000. The salaries of superior 
court judges shall be paid by New York city and 
shall not exceed $10,000 a year. 

To Judiciary Com. Copy to Cities Com. for 
its opinion. 

June 11. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 384, 628. 

No. 378. By Mr. M. SAXE.— Amending section 
2, article 10, by providing that all officers charged 
with duties relating to the assessment and collec¬ 
tion of taxes shall be elected by the people or 
appointed as the legislature may direct. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

June 3. Referred to Cities Com. for its opin¬ 
ion. 

Printed No. 385. 


No. 379. By Mr. MERENESS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 28, article 3, by providing that extra compen¬ 
sation shall not be granted to any public officer, 
servant, agent or contractor by the legislature, 
common council of a city, a board of supervisors, 
a town board, nor a board of village trustees; nor 
shall the salary or compensation of a public officer 
be increased or diminished during the term of 
office for which he shall have been elected or ap¬ 
pointed. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Copy to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

June 3. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 386. 

No. 380. By Mr. MERENESS.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 18, 28. article 3; section 1, article 5; sec¬ 
tion 15, article 6, and section 9, article 10, by 
striking out the provisions that the legislature 
shall have power to pass private or local bills 
creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percent¬ 
ages or allowances of public officers, during their 
term and providing that extra compensation shall 
not be granted to any public officer, servant, agent 
or contractor by the legislature, common council 
of a city, a board of supervisors, a town board, 
nor a board of village trustees; nor shall the sal¬ 
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creased cr diminished during the term of office 
for wiuch he shall have been elected or appointed. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com. for 
its opinion! 

June 3. Kef erred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 387. 

No. 381. By Mr. ANGELL.— Amending section 
18, article 6, by providing that the legislature 
shall have power to make the territorial jurisdic¬ 
tion of inferior local courts coextensive with that 
of county courts in the county or counties in 
which such local courts may be established, and 
providing that the legislature may confer upon 
such local courts equity jurisdiction in other re¬ 
spects than is conferred upon county courts as 
may be necessary for the care and custody of chil¬ 
dren. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 388. 

No. 382. By Mr. DUNMORE.— Adding new 
section to article 2, authorizing the legislature at 
any time to provide by law for ascertaining the 
sentiment of any class of persons with respect to 
extending to them the right of suffrage. Such 
law shall provide for the registration of person 
within such class. No proposed amendment to the 
constitution extending the right of suffrage to a 
new class of voters shall be submitted by the legis¬ 
lature for approval until after the persons in such 
class shall have declared in favor of such exten¬ 
sion by a majority of those voting thereon. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 389. 

No. 383. By Mr. COBB.— Amending section 1, 
article 2, by providing that a qualified voter must 
be a resident of the county, town, ward or election 
district in which he may offer his vote for such 
time as may be provided by law. At present he 
must be a resident of the county four months and 
of the town, ward or election district thirty days. 
The restriction that a qualified voter shall be en¬ 
titled to vote in the election district of which he 
is a resident at the time and not elsewhere is 
stricken out. If the legislative amendment relat¬ 
ing to woman suffrage is adopted the foregoing 
amendment shall have impartial application to 
citizens of either sex. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 390. 

No. 384. By Mr. COBB.—Amending section 11, 
article 6, by providing that no judge of the Court 
of Appeals or Supreme Court justice or other 
judicial officers, except justices of the peace or of 
inferior courts not of record, shall be removed 
except for cause lendering him incapable of or 
unfit for the further exercise of judicial functions. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 391. 

No. 385. By Mr. K. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 6 and 1 , article 4, by providing that if the 
office of governor be vacant the lieutenant-gov¬ 
ernor shall become governor for the residue of the 
term. If the governor be under impeachment or 
be unable to discharge the powers and duties of 
his office, or be absent from the State, the lieuten¬ 


ant-governor shall act as governor during such 
impeachment, inability or absence. If the office 
of governor be vacant and there be no lieutenant- 
governor, such vacancy shall be filled for the re¬ 
mainder of the term at the next general election 
happening not less than three months after the 
vacancy occurs, but until the vacancy is so filled 
the temporary president’ of the senate, or if there 
be none, the speaker of the assembly shall be gov¬ 
ernor until the first day of the political year next 
succeeding the election at which a successor shall 
be chosen. If the office of governor be vacant and 
the lieutenant-governor be under impeachment or 
unable to discharge the duties of governor or be 
absent from the state, the temporary president of 
the senate shall act as governor. If the temporary 
president, be unable to discharge such duties or o« 
absent from the state, the speaker of the assembly 
shall act as governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

July 15. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 4. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 125. Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 392, 744, 846. 

No. 386. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
may provide by la wfor succession to the offices 
and powers and duties of governor, lieutenant- 
governor, temporary president of the senate or the 
speaker of the assembly not provided for in the 
constitution.” 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 393. 

No. 387. By Mr. DEYO.—Amending section 9, 
article 1, by declaring any contract between cus¬ 
tomer and broker or principal and agent, respect¬ 
ing the purchase or sale upon credit or margin of 
corporate stocks, bonds or other securities, or 
commodities, where the parties thereto intend 
that such contract shall be terminated, closed or 
settled upon the basis of the market quotations 
of prices for such securities or commodities to be 
a gambling contract. 

j-o Bill of Rights Com. 

Aug. 17. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 394, 813. 

No. 388. By Mr. DEYO.—Adding a new section 
4 to article 8, reading: “No exchange, board of 
trade or security market on which stocks, bonds 
or securities are bought or sold shall hereafter be 
permitted to do business in this state unless in¬ 
corporated under its laws and the transactions 
thereof and. the dealings of its members for them¬ 
selves and others thereon shall be subject to state 
regulation. The legislature shall pass appropriate 
laws for such purpose. The present section 4 is 
renumbered section 5, the numbers of succeeding 
sections of article 8 being renumbered accord¬ 
ingly.” 

To Corporations Com. 

July 2*9. Com. reported that no change should 
" be made in the Constitution on the subject. 

Printed No. 395. 

No. 389. By Mr. BETTS.—Amending sections 
3, 4, 5 of article 3, section 1 of article 6, section 2 
of article 12, by providing that the legislature 







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sliaii redivide the state into senate districts at the 
session of 1916 and may make such redivision at 
the first regular session after the return of the 
United States census. Thereafter such redivisions 
shall be made every tneth year after 1920. The 
provision that the legislature may abolish Hamil¬ 
ton county and annex *it to some other county is 
stricken out. The apportionment of assemblymen 
shall continue as now fixed by law until a new 
apportionment is made. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 396. 


No. 390. By Mr. EHEES.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 1, providing that any person or 
persons selling or giving away intoxicating liquors 
and the owners of premises upon which such 
liquors are sold shall be liable jointly and sever¬ 
ally for all damages and expenses direct and con¬ 
sequential, caused by the intoxication of any indi¬ 
vidual to whom such liquors are sold or given. 
The legislature shall make such provision by law 
as will enable every person or corporation, civil 
or municipal, injured by any intoxicated person, 
to enforce their rights under this section, and 
may establish in each county a fund sufficient to 
aid poor persons thus injured to enforce their 
rights. Every judgment thus secured shall be a 
prior lien upon premises. 

To Bill of Eights Com. 

Printed No. 397. 


No. 391. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Amending section 
2, article 1, by providing that a person charged 
with the commission of any crime or offense pun¬ 
ishable by imprisonment, including contempt of 
court, shall also have a trial by jury upon de¬ 
mand to same, but nothing herein contained shall 
be deemed to require such demand in any criminal 
case in which trial by jury is now mandatory. ’ 
To Bill of Eights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. forNits opinion. 

Printed No. 398. 


No. 392. By Mr, CUEEAN.—Adding a new 
section to article 8, reading: “The state or any 
political division thereof may undertake such 
public works and engage in such industries as 
they deem necessary to the public welfare for 
the purpose of relieving distress from unemploy¬ 
ment or other extraordinary emergencies; and 
nothing contained in this article shall impair 
such authority.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

Printed No. 399. 


No. 393. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Addiiig a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, reading: “The legislature may 
provide by law for insurance by the state of work¬ 
ers, against accident, sickness, invalidity, old age 
and" unemployment.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

Printed No. 400. 


No. 394. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Adding a new 
section to article 1, reading: “In all cases of 
employment by and on behalf of the state, or any 
political division thereof, or in any contract for 
labor or for supplies, by or on behalf of the state, 
or any political division thereof, not more than 
eight hours in any twenty-four consecutive hours 
shall constitute a day’s work. The power of the 
legislature to regulate hours of labor under any 
provision of this constitution shall be exercised 
subject to the provisions of this section.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. 

Printed No. 401, 


No. 395. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 14, by providing that the legislature 
shall fix a time by law for the election of all 
delegates to the constitutional convention, to be 
held in any year following the adoption of the 
question whether a convention shall be held, at 
which no other state officials shall be voted for. 
And no party emblem shall be printed on the 
ballot for such delegates. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 402. 

No. 396. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Amending section 
6, article 3, by increasing from $1,500 to $3,000 
the annual salary of each member of the legisla¬ 
ture. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 403. , 


No. 397. By Mr CUEEAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 4, 6, and adding new section, article 4, by 
providing that the governor shall be commander- 
in-chief of the military and naval forces of the 
state and as such commander he alone shall have 
power to call out the whole or any portion of 
said forces or * either of them, in time of need. 
There shall never be a State Constabulary or 
similar body. The employment of private armed 
forces for labor disputes shall be forever prohib¬ 
ited. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Industrial 
Interests and Governor and Other State 
Officers Committees for their opinion. 

Printed No. 404. 


No. 398. By Mr. CUEEAN.—Amending section 

5, article 2, adding new section to article 6, 
amending sections 4, 8, 14, 17 and 18 of article 

6, section 2 of article 10, and section 3 of article 
12 by providing that judges and justices of each 
court shall be chosen only by election except in 
cases of temporary appointments to fill vacancies. 
The legislature shall fix a time each year for the 
election of judicial officers at which no other 
public officers shall be voted for. The ballot for 
election of such officers shall not be arranged or 
used for voting for candidates for any office ex¬ 
cept judge or justice. The names of candidates 
shall be grouped under the title of office and the 
ballot shall contain no party emblem. 

To Judiciary Com. Also to Suffrage Com. for 
its opinion. 

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JUNE 3 

No. 399. By Mr. COLES.—Amending section 
5, article 3, by providing that no portion of the 
territory of any county shall be taken from such 
county and be annexed to, and become a part of 
an adjoining county, unless, at the general elec¬ 
tion next preceding such proposed annexation, a 
majority of the duly qualified electors residing In 
the territory proposed to be so annexed, and 
also the electors residing in such adjoining 
county, shall have voted in favor of the proposed 
annexation. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 411. 


No. 400. By Mr. ADAMS.—Amending section 
22, article 6, by providing that justices of peace 
and other local judicial officers provided for in 
any article of the constitution whether heretofore 
or hereafter elected or appointed shall hold office 
until the expiration of their terms and no law 
shall be passed abolishing their office or term to 
take effect during the term for which they were 
or shall be respectively elected or appointed. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 412. * 

No. 401. By Mr. BANNISTER.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 11, by providing for the organiza¬ 
tion of a'^irial forces in the state militia. 

To Military Affairs Com. 

Printed No. 413. 

No. 402. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending sections 
1 and 19, article 6, and inserting a new section 
by abolishing the court of claims and creating a 
claims division as a branch of the supreme court 
which shall have exclusive jurisdiction of claims 
against the state. The claims division shall con¬ 
sist of three or more justices in the judicial dis¬ 
trict which shall include the seat of government. 
From all justices elected or appointed to the 
supreme court in such district the governor shall 
designate those who shall constitute the claims 
division and also the presiding justice thereof, 
for terms of one year. Appeals from final deter¬ 
minations of the claims division shall be taken 
to the court of appeals. 

To Judiciary Com. 

July 21. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 414. 

No. 403. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
1. article 9, 'by requiring that the legislature 
shall provide by appropriate legislation that the 
board of education, or other like body, of each 
and every city shall be an integral part of the 
state educational system. 

To Education Com. Also to Cities Com. for 
its opinion. 

Printed No. 415. 


No. 404. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 5, by abolishing the office of super¬ 
intendent of public works and providing for the 
establishment by the Legislature of a state de¬ 


partment of engineering and public works, 
headea by three commissioners appointed by the 
Governor so that the term of one commissioner 
shall expire on January 1 of the 4th, 8th and 
12th year. The full term of all members there¬ 
after appointed shall be 12 years each. One com¬ 
missioner must be a professional engineer and all 
shall be especially fitted by experience for the 
duties of the office. At least one and not more 
than two commissioners shall be residents of 
New York City. The department shall have con¬ 
trol of public lands of the state and boundary 
surveys; state buildings, parks, highways, canals 
and other public works, including design, con¬ 
struction, maintenance and operation; and the 
conservation and development of the natural re¬ 
sources belonging to the state. The offices of 
state engineer and surveyor, commissioners of 
the land office and canal board are also abolished, 
their duties being transferred to the new de¬ 
partment. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Canals Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 416. 

No. 405. By Mr. PARSONS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 19, article 1, and adding a new section 
thereto, by providing that “ Nothing contained 
in this constitution shall limit the power of the 
Legislature to enact laws which the Legislature 
declares to be necessary for the protection of the 
lives, health, safety, morals or welfare of em¬ 
ployees.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Legis¬ 
lative Powers Com. for its opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. foi 
opinion. 

Aug. 9. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 193. 

Printed No. 417. 

No. 406. By Mr. PARSONS. —Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 1, by providing that this section 
which prohibits the abrogation of the right of 
action to recover damages for injuries resulting 
in death shall not affect legislation providing 
compensation for injuries to or occupational dis¬ 
eases suffered by employees or for death result¬ 
ing from such injuries or diseases. 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to of 
rights Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 418. 

No. 407. By Mr. PARSONS.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
shall have the power to regulate or prohibit manu¬ 
facturing in tenement-houses.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Legis¬ 
lative Powers Com. for its opinion. 

July 26. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order for Sept. 2. 

Sept. 2. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 3. Passed. Ayes 98, Noes 46. 

Printed Nos. 419, 864. 


No. 408. By Mr. PARSONS.— Striking out en¬ 
tire provisions of section 19, article 1, and in- 





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serting in place thereof the fallowing: “Nothing 
contained in* this constitution shall limit the 
power of the legislature to enact laws for the 
payment or furnishing either by employers or 
by employers and employees or otherwise either 
directly or through a state or other system of 
insurance or otherwise, of compensation or ben- 
fits, without regard to fault, for injuries, illness, 
invalidity, old age, unemployment or death of 
employees, or for the adjustment, determina¬ 
tion or settlement with or without trial by jury 
of issues which may arise under such legislation.” 

. To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Legis¬ 
lative Powers Com. for its opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 420. 

No. 409. By Mr. F. MARTIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 11, article 6, by providing that the first 
judicial department shall consist cr New York 
and Bronx counties instead of New York county 
as at present. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 421. 

No. 410. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Amending 
section 14, article 6, by providing that county 
judges shall be elected for 10 years instead of 6 
years as at present; that county courts shall have 
original jurisdiction in cases in which the com¬ 
plaint demands judgment for a sum not exceeding 
$5,000 instead of $2,000 as at present; that the 
existing city court of New York shall be contin¬ 
ued with the present number of justices and at 
the same salaries and with the same powers and 
jurisdiction it now possesses, together with orig¬ 
inal jurisdiction in civil actions for the recovery 
of money only in which the complaint demands 
judgment for a sum not exceeding $5,000. 

To Judiciary Com. Also to Cities Com. for 
its opinion. 

Printed No. 422. 

No. 411. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 10, article 8, by requiring the establishment 
of a sinking fund for the payment of interest and 
principal of every county or city debt hereafter 
created, including one to refund a debt now or 
hereafter existing, but not including a debt created 
in. anticipation of and payable from the taxes for 
the year in which it is incurred or for the follow¬ 
ing year, nor a debt maturing in annual instal¬ 
ments. There shall be raised annually by taxation 
a sum sufficient to pay, when due, the interest and 
principal next maturing of every county or city 
debt for which there is no sinking fund, and also 
a sum for each sinking fund hereafter created 
which shall produce an amount sufficient to pay 
the principal and interest of the debt to which 
the fund relates. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Gov’t. Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
713.) 

Printed No. 423. 

No. 412. By Mr. BARNES.—Striking out sec¬ 
tions 1 and 3, articlie 14, re-numbering section 2 


as section 1, and amending such section by pro¬ 
viding that the question whether there shall be 
a constitutional convention shall be submitted at 
the general election to be held in 1925 and every 
10th year thereafter and also at such general 
election as the legislature may by law provide. 
The question to be adopted must be voted for by 
a majority of the electors voting at the general 
election for the first named office on the ballot. 
At present such questions are submitted every 
20th year and at such times as the legislature 
may by law provide. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 424. 


No. 413. By Mr. DUNLAP.—Amending section 
5, article 3, by striking out the provision author¬ 
izing the legislature to abolish the county of 
Hamilton and annex the territory thereof to some 
other county. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 425. 

No. 414. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 14, article 6, by providing that the county 
coufts shall have original jurisdiction in actions 
for the recovery of money only in which the com¬ 
plaint demands judgment for a sum not exceeding 
$5,000 instead of $2,000 as at present. They shall 
have general jurisdiction in law and equity in all 
actions and proceedings now or hereafter within 
their jurisdiction. The supreme court or a jus¬ 
tice thereof may transfer to the county court or 
judge any action or proceeding of which said 
county court or judge would have had jurisdic¬ 
tion if originally commenced in said court. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 426. 

No. 415. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
section 2, article 5, and striking out section 7 
thereof by eliminating the provision for the elec¬ 
tion of the secretary of state, comptroller, treas¬ 
urer and state engineer and surveyor and provid¬ 
ing that the attorney-general elected in 1918 and 
thereafter shall be chosen for 4 years. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 427. 

No. 416. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Adding a 
new section to article 5, requiring the state comp¬ 
troller on or before January 1 of each year to 
furnish the legislature an itemized statement of 
income of the state for the current fiscal year. 
The legislature shall not pass any appropriation 
bill in which the amounts in the aggregate shall 
exceed the amount of such estimate. 

To Finance Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed No. 428. 

No. 417. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
section 2, article 3, by providing that Senators 
elected in 1916 shall be chosen for two years and 
Senators elected in 1918 and thereafter shall be 
chosen for 4 years, and Assemblymen elected in 





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1918 and thereafter shall be chosen for 2 years. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 15. Reference changed to Legislative 
Organization Com. 

Printed No. 429. 

No. 418. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
section 1, article 5, by providing that the gov¬ 
ernor elected in 1918, with the consent of the 
senate, shall appoint a secretary of state, comp¬ 
troller, treasurer, and state engineer and surveyor 
to hold office until the epd of the term of the 
governor. They may be suspended or removed 
from office by the governor whenever in his judg¬ 
ment public interest so requires. A statement of 
the cause of such removal or suspension shall be 
filed with the secretary of state and a report made 
to the legislature at its next session. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 430. • 

No. 419. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
section 1, article 4, by providing that the governor 
and lieutenant-governor elected in 1918 and there¬ 
after shall hold office for 4 years. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 431. 

x'fo. 420. By Mr. WADSWORTH.—Amending 
section 6, article 10, by providing that the legis¬ 
lature convening January, 1920 and in every even 
numbered year thereafter shall end its session 
on March 1, following. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 432. 


No. 421. By Mr. CURRAN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, reading: “No court or judge 
shall hereafter have power or jurisdiction to make 
any decision, judgment, order or determination 
nullifying, on the ground of alleged unconstitu¬ 
tionality, any statute regularly enacted by the 
legislature or enacted or approved by the voters 
of the state under any referendum provided for 
in this constitution.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 433. 


No. 422. By Mr. CURRAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 19, article 1, and adding a new section 
thereto by providing that “ Nothing contained in 
this constitution shall be construed to limit the 
power of the legislature to enact laws for the 
protection of the lives, health, safety, comfort or 
general welfare of employees.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Bill 
of Rights Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 434. 


No. 423. By Mr. CURRAN.—Amending section 
4, article 1, by providing that the privilege of a 
writ 01 habeas corpus shall never be suspended, 
and striking out the exception to this provision 


when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public 
safety may require the suspension of this privi¬ 
lege. Military tribunals shall not exercise civil 
or criminal jurisdiction over citizens while the 
regularly constituted state courts are open to 
administer justice. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Sept. 2. Military Affairs Com. recommended 
that no change be made in the Constitution 
on the subject. 

Printed No. 435. 

No. 424. By Mr. WESTWOOD.—Adding a 
new section to article 3, reading: “No real prop¬ 
erty whatsoever shall be exempt from taxation, 
except that by general laws exemption may be 
granted upon places of worship, and the land 
upon which they stand; upon buildings of chari¬ 
table institutions, actually used in the adminis¬ 
tration of the charity, supported entirely by state, 
municipal or private philanthropy; upon ceme¬ 
teries, held exclusively and without profit for 
burial purposes; and upon property owned by 
the federal, state, county, city, town, village or 
school district governments, located within such 
county, city, town, village or school district re¬ 
spectively. The legislature shall enact laws for 
the enforcement of the foregoing provisions.” 

To Taxation Com. 

July 20. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 436, 750. . ; 


JUNE 4 

No. 425. By Mr. SARGENT.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, requiring the legislature 
at its first annual session hereafter to provide by 
law for establishing a commission of three mem¬ 
bers to be appointed by the governor, to revise, 
reform, simplify and abridge so far as practicable, 
the practice, pleadings and forms of procedure in 
civil and criminal actions and proceedings for 
submission to the legislature for its consideration. 
The legislature shall prescribe the terms of office, 
compensation and method of filling vacancies in 
the commission. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 437. 

No. 426. By Mr. WAGNER,—Amending sec¬ 
tion 12, article 7, by providing that in case of 
counties to which no apportionment of highways 
is made, the general laws under which improved 
state highways are determined shall provide for 
the payment annually to said counties of a por¬ 
tion of the fund herein provided for, equal to the 
average amount expended on highways in the 
counties to which such apportionment is made. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 438. 

No. 427. By Mr. C. NICOLL.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 5, by striking out the provision that 
veterans of the civil war shall be entitled to 
preference in promotion in appointment in the 






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civil service and providing further that the legis¬ 
lature may extend a limited preference in civil 
service appointments, not exceeding in any class 
more than 5% on examination for appointment, 
to residents of the state who have been honorably 
discharged from the regular or volunteer military 
or naval forces of the United States or who have 
honorably completed a term of enlistment in the 
active militia or national guard of the state. 

To Civil Service Com. 

June 17. Eeferred to Military Affairs Com. for 
opinion. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Sept. 2. Military Affairs Com. recommended 
that no change be made in the Constitution 
on the subject. 

Printed No. 439. 

No. 428. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 6, by providing that after Decem¬ 
ber 31, 1916, the jurisdiction of the court of 
appeals shall extend to the review’ of questions of 
fact as well as of law. 

To Judiciary Com. ^ 

Printed No. 440. 

No. 429. By Mr. HEATON.—Adding a new’ 
section 30 to article 3, reading: “The legisla¬ 
ture shall not pass a general or local law exempt¬ 
ing municipalities from taxation in whole or in 
part, on property which they own outside their 
corporate limits.” 

To Taxation Com. Also to Cities and Legis¬ 
lative Powers Committees for their opinion. 

Printed No. 441. 

No. 430. By Mr. HEATON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 12, article 7, by providing that state debts 
may be authorized by law for the maintenance of 
highways. Such state highways shall include 
bridges which form an integral part of the high¬ 
ways. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 442. 

No. 431. By Mr. McKEAN.—Amending section 
15, article 6, by increasing from 6 to 10 years 
the terms of office of surrogates. In New York 
county the term shall continue to be for 14 years. 
In addition to the jurisdiction and powers which 
surrogates now have, further jurisdiction and pow¬ 
ers may be granted’ to them by law. Surrogates 
shall have exclusive jurisdiction to try all ques¬ 
tions legal and equitable in order to make a com¬ 
plete disposition of any matter pending before 
them, and for better exercise thereof they shall 
have the jurisdiction and powers, legal and equi¬ 
table, now possessed by the supreme court, includ¬ 
ing trial by jury. The surrogate of any county 
may hold surrogate’s court in any other county 
when requested by the surrrogate of such other 
county. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 443. 

No. 432. By Mr. MEIGS.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, providing that the governor 
within 6 weeks after the beginning of the regular 
session shall transmit to the legislature annually 
a state budget comprising a complete schedule of 
estimated expenditures of each state department 


and a statement of estimated income for the 
ensuing fiscal year together with a statement of 
the estimated financial condition of the state at 
the beginning and end of the ensuing fiscal year; 
also an appropriation bill covering such estimated 
expenditure and a revenue bill or bills appropriate 
to meet the state’s financial needs. No item of 
appropriation so transmitted shall be increased 
by the legislature. In the event that any appro¬ 
priation bill shall not become law any existing 
department and officer may expend during the 
ensuing year the same amounts and under the 
same conditions as au,thorized with respect to 
the current year. No appropriation for expendi¬ 
tures of any state department other than those 
provided for in the appropriation bill shall be 
made except by separate bill or bills which may 
be introduced as are other bills in the legislature, 
but shall proceed to passage only when the gov¬ 
ernor in a message shall have certified that a 
public emergency exists requiring such appro¬ 
priation. 

To Finance Com. Also to Governor and 
Other. State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute. bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed No. 444. 

No. 433. By Mr. MEIGS.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 7 to article* 7, requiring the legislature to 
provide for the establishment of a state board of 
conservation of 12 members to be elected by the 
legislature on joint ballot of the two houses in 
such manner that there shall always be on the 
board at least one resident of each judicial dis¬ 
trict. They shall be chosen so that the term 
of one member shall expire on January 1 of each 
year. They shall serve without compensation 
and shall have control of all the state’s natural 
resources including forest preserve lands and 
waters thereon. State lands shall be forever kept 
as forest lands and the forest cover shall be 
perpetuated. State lands lying within the bounds 
of Adirondack and Catskill parks shall not be 
sold or exchanged. The board shall make suitable 
rules for the use and conservation of the fish and 
game of the state and shall appoint a chief 
executive and fix his compensation. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 445. 

No. 434. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 3, article 5, by abolishing the office of 
superintendent of public works and providing that 
the state engineer and surveyor shall take over 
the duties of the superintendent of public works. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Canals Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 446. 

No. 435. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 1, article 10, by providing that sheriffs, 
county clerks, district attorneys and registers in 
counties wholly contained within a city (New 
York City) instead of in New York and Kings 
counties and in counties whose boundaries are the 
same as those of a city, shall be chosen once in 





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every two or four years as the legislature shall 
direct. The appellate division of the supreme 
court in the judicial department in which the 
county is situated, instead of the governor as at 
present, may remove any sheriff, county clerk, 
district attorney or register. The determination 
of the appellate division shall not be subject to 
review. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
June 11. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 12. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
717.) 

Printed No. 447. 

No. 436. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Repealing 
section 4, article 5, which provides for the ap¬ 
pointment of a superintendent of state prisons 
and other prison officers. 

lo Prisons Com. Also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 11. Gov. and Other State Officers Cbm. 
bill introduced. (See Int. 716.) 

Printed No. 448. 

No. 437. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 7, by providing that the state may 
issue revenue bonds or other obligations in antici¬ 
pation of the receipt of revenues or the collection 
of taxes for the fiscal year in which or succeeding 
which, or both, such bonds are issued. Such bonds 
and accrued interest shall be paid from such 
revenues or taxes when received. 

To Finance Com. Also to Taxation Com. for 
its opinion. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 449. 

No. 438. By Mr. GREEN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 7 to article 7, making the conservation de¬ 
partment a constitutional office, at the head of 
which shall be a commissioner appointed by the 
governor with the consent of the senate for 6 
years. He shall not be charged with any public 
duties except such as relate to birds, fish, quadru¬ 
peds, Crustacea, forest and waters, and to the pro¬ 
tection and conservation thereof, and the propaga¬ 
tion of wild life. The commissioner may be re¬ 
moved by the senate on recommendation of the 
governor if two-thirds of the members elected con¬ 
cur therein. He shall be removed only for cause 
and after a hearing. There shall be a division of 
lands and forests, of waters, for the administra- 
'tion of laws relating to state jurisdiction over 
water storage, hydraulic development, water sup¬ 
ply, river improvement, drainage, irrigation and 
navigation of waters outside the canals; and a 
division of fish and game including shell-fish. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 
July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 450. 

No. 439. By Mr. LINDSAY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 1, by abolishing tribal courts for 
Indians. Except as otherwise provided by the 
constitution, treaties and laws of the United 
States, all general laws of the state shall apply 


to Indians therein. But Indians maintaining 
their tribal relations and not subject to taxation 
shall not be qualified to vote nor hold public 
office.^ The legislature shall provide for the pres¬ 
ervation of records heretofore kept by officers 
and courts of the various Indian tribes. 

To Committee on Indian Relations. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 451. 


JUNE 8 

No. 440. By Mr. COLES.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 1, reading “ Friends or people 
called Quakers and members of any other relig¬ 
ious denomination whatever which has tenets 
against participation in war or preparation 
therefor who are opposed to war service for 
reasons of conscience shall not be required to 
serve in war or preparation therefor except as 
unarmed members of the ambulance or hospital 
service. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Military Af¬ 
fairs Com. for its opinion. 

June 17. Reference changed to Military Affairs 
Com. Also referred to Bill of Rights Com. 
for opinion. 

Sept. 2. Military Affairs Com. recommended 
that no change be made in the Constitution 
on the subject. 

Printed No. 452. 

No. 441. By Mr. FRANK.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that municipal and 
other corporations and individuals invested with 
the privilege of taking private property for pub¬ 
lic use shall make just compensation for prop¬ 
erty taken, injured or destroyed by the construc¬ 
tion or enlargement of works, highways or im¬ 
provements. The words “ private property ” as 
used in this article include every available in¬ 
terest in things which is recognized as property 
as between private persons. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 453. 

No. 442. By Mr. FRANK.—Amending section 
6, article 1, by providing that no private prop¬ 
erty shall be injured for public use without just 
compensation. The compensation for the taking 
or injuring of private property shall be ascer¬ 
tained in such manner as shall be prescribed by 
general laws and no legislative powers relative 
thereto shall be delegated to municipal or other 
corporations, associations or individuals. No 
private property shall be condemned or injured 
until three months after the compensation there¬ 
for shall have been paid to the owner. The word 
“ property ” in this article includes every valu¬ 
able interest in things recognized as property be¬ 
tween private persons. But this definition shall 
not be construed to limit any of the police, war 
or taxing powers of the state. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Public Utili¬ 
ties Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 454. 

No. 443. By Mr. ADAMS.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 15-a to article 6, providing for the creation 
of a court of record in first class cities, to be 






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known as a Domestic Delations Court, consisting 
of four judges in New York City and two judges 
in other first class cities. The mayors of the re¬ 
spective cities shall appoint the judges for terms 
of ten years, their salaries to be fixed by the 
board of estimate and apportionment or other 
corresponding body. The Domestic Relations 
Courts shall have jurisdiction relative to all 
actions for divorce, annulment of marriages and 
separation, custody and control of children and 
sole jurisdiction in all proceedings for non-sup¬ 
port of wives, children and indigent parents, with 
power to award the custody of children in such 
proceedings. The legislature may enact laws 
vesting in said court the sole power to enforce 
laws for the protection of first class cities from 
being charged with the support of abandoned and 
non-supported wives, children, indigent parents 
and illegitimate children. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 455. 


No. 444. By Mr. REEVES.—Amending section 
1, article 10, by providing that there shall be a 
superintendent of records in each of New York, 
Bronx, Kings and Queens counties and in such 
other counties as the legislature shall deem neces¬ 
sary, to be appointed by the governor once every 
four years. The superintendent of records shall 
in addition to the duties now performed by him 
have supervision of all county records, including 
tax records as far as necessary for making 
searches and abstract of titles to real estate. He 
shall make such searches and abstracts upon re¬ 
ceiving such fees as the legislature may deter¬ 
mine. 

To County, Town and Village Government. 
Also to County, Town and Village Of¬ 
ficers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 456. 


No. 445. By Mr. BAYES.—Amending sections 
2 and 7, article 6, by abolishing the appellate 
division of the supreme court and providing that 
the justices thereof shall become court of appeals 
judges after January 1, 1916. The court of 
appeals as hereby enlarged is continued. It 
shall consist of a chief judge and associate 
judges now in office including the designated 
judges and the present appellate division justices 
in office on January 1, 1916. The successors to 
the judges both elected and designated now con¬ 
stituting the court of appeals shall be elected. 
The successors to the remaining judges shall be 
designated by the chief judge from among su¬ 
preme court justices. The first judicial depart¬ 
ment shall consist of New York and Bronx coun¬ 
ties instead of New York as at present. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 457. 


No. 446. By Mr. BAYES.— Striking out sec¬ 
tion 9, article 6, and inserting in place thereof: 

After the last day of December, nineteen hun¬ 
dred and fifteen, the court of appeals shall have 
the jurisdiction now exercised by the supreme 
court at its appellate divisions, and in addition 
the hearing and determination of appeals in the 


supreme court and other courts where the judg¬ 
ment is of death, and such additional jurisdic¬ 
tion as may be conferred by the legislature. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 458. 

No. 447. By Mr. NEWBURGER.—Amending 
section 18, article 6, by abolishing the courts of 
special sessions after December 1, 1915, the 
jurisdiction of such courts in each county to be 
vested in justices courts and in magistrates 
courts, all actions and proceedings to be trans¬ 
ferred to those courts. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 459. 

No. 448. By Mr. NEWBURGER.—Repealing 
section 23, article 6, which provides that special 
sessions courts shall have jurisdiction of of¬ 
fenses of the grade of misdemeanors as may be 
prescribed by law. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 460. 


No. 449. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Adding a new 
section to article 10 and amending section 1 of 
article 10, also section 3 of article 12 by provid¬ 
ing that after January 1, 1917, there shall be 
a new county known as New York county to 
comprise the present counties of New York, 
Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond, whereupon 
such counties shall be abolished and their powers 
of local government and administration merged 
in those of the County of New York as newly 
constituted. The legislature shall in 1916 pass 
appropriate legislation to perfect the organiza¬ 
tion and provide for the government of the new 
county and to adjust the property, affairs and 
relations of such consolidated counties and of 
the City of New York if affected. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. Also to Cities Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 461. 


No. 450. By Mr. BALDWIN.— Adding a new 
section 9-a to article 8, reading: “The rate of 
taxation and the percentage of assessed valuation 
to actual value on real estate for all taxation 
purposes throughout the state shall be the same 
on buildings as on land and any exemptions shall 
apply equally to land and the buildings thereon.’^ 
To Taxation Com. 

Printed No. 462. 

No. 451. By Mr. BALDWIN.— Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: The legislature 

shall not enact any laws requiring any city, 
county, to^vn or village to pay any moneys, 
specific or otherwise, for any purpose or to pay 
any specified salary to any person who is paid in 
the first instance out of the treasurv of the city, 
county, town or village, respectively; but the 
legislature may fix the maximum salary or sal¬ 
aries that may be paid to such person or persons. 
To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Cities 
Com. and to County, Town and Village 
Government Com. for their opinions. 
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No. 452. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article‘6, by authorizing appellate division 
justices in judicial departments containing a 
county having a population of 700,000 or more, 
according to the last preceding state enumera¬ 
tion, to appoint supreme court commissioners 
whose duties, powers, tenure of office and com¬ 
pensation shall be prescribed by the legislature 
under such general rule as it may authorize the 
appellate division to make. The appellate di¬ 
vision may authorize one or more of such com¬ 
missioners to hold trial terms of the supreme 
court. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 464. 


No. 453. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 1, by providing that compensation 
for the taking of private property for public 
use shall if not made by the state, shall be as¬ 
certained by the supreme court with or without 
a jury' or by commissioners appointed by the 
court according to law, provided, however, that 
in counties where supreme court commissioners 
are appointed, the commissioners appointed must 
be selected from such supreme court commission¬ 
ers. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 465. 

No. 454. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 21, article 6, by providing that the legis¬ 
lature shall make provision for the collection, 
compilation and publication annually of civil 
and criminal judicial statistics of the state. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 466. 


No. 455. By Mr. BALDWIN.—Adding new 
section to article 8, providing for the appoint¬ 
ment by the governor of a commission of three 
members to regulate the issuance of city, town, 
village or county securities. Each commissioner 
shall receive $5,000 a year. No securities shall 
hereafter be issued by any city, county, towm or 
village until they have been first approved by 
the commission. 

To Finance Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Government Com. and to Cities 
Com. for their opinions. 

June 11. Referred also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 17. Reference chansred to Cities Com. 
Referred to Finance Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

°713.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 731.) 

Printed No. 467. 


No. 456. By Mr. T. F. SMITH.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 2, by providing that laws for as¬ 
certaining by proper proofs, the citizens who 
shall be entitled to vote and for the registration 
of voters, when made, shall be uniform in their 
application throughout the state. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 468. 


No. 457. By Mr. WAGNER.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 6, by providing that no judicial 
officer shall be subject to removal, or forfeiture 
of office for the period for which he shall have 
been elected or appointed, except for cause, pro¬ 
vided by statute, and in the event of any legis¬ 
lative re-construction or the abolition of any 
inferior or local court, the judicial incumbents 
thereof shall be continued in the court as re¬ 
constructed or substituted, subject only to ex¬ 
piration of term or to removal or forfeiture. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 469. 

No. 458. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 21 and 22, article 3, section 4, article 4, 
by providing that the regular administration 
appropriation bills, with estimates for annual 
expenditures for departments, bureaus, offices 
and commissions under the jurisdiction of the 
governor, shall be submitted to the legislature 
by the governor during the first week of the 
regular session. Proposals for appropriations for 
legislative, judicial and other expenditures not 
included in such bills shall be separately sub¬ 
mitted as members’ bills. The legislature shall 
resolve itself into a committee of the whole upon 
receiving administration appropriation bills not 
less frequently than one day each week at which 
time the governor and executive department 
heads under him may have the privilege of the 
floor to explain estimates and items requested 
and to answer questions raised relative thereto. 
No amendment to any administration appropria¬ 
tion bills shall be offered except to reduce the 
amount thereof. Not later than 60 days after 
the beginning of the regular session the gov¬ 
ernor shall submit a budget containing a finan¬ 
cial plan for the next fiscal year. Other pro¬ 
visions to provide a “ scientific budget system ” 
are made. 

To Finance Com. 

June 11. Referred also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
709.) 

Printed No. 470. 

No. 459. By Mr. TANNER.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 3, by increasing from two to four 
years the term of senator and from one to two 
years the term of assemblyman. The legislature 
shall every year assemble on the first Wednes¬ 
day of January and in 1918 and every even- 
numbered year thereafter the session shall be 
limited to 60 days and at such sessions no meas¬ 
ures except general appropriation bills and pro¬ 
posals recommended by the governor or intro¬ 
duced by a majority vote of a standing com¬ 
mittee of either house shall be considered. 

To Legislative Organization Com. Also to 
Legislative Powers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 471. 

No. 460. By Mr. F. MARTIN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 10, and adding a new section 
thereto providing that a person holding any elec¬ 
tive public office, including a person appointed 
to fill a vacancv, who shall be removed therefrom 
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state or of a municipality or civil division, other 
than the legislature, a house thereof or a court 
of record, shall be entitled to a review by the 
supreme court in a proceeding by writ or certio¬ 
rari of the proceedings and determination by 
which he was removed. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

June 16. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 472. 


No. 461. By Mr. F. MARTIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by providing that when a per¬ 
son charged with a crime, other than homicide, 
requests the district attorney to permit the 
charge to be presented to the court by an in¬ 
formation without submission to a grand jury, 
the charge may be so submitted with the con¬ 
sent of the district attorney. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 11. Referred also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 473. 

No. 462. By Mr. BARRETT.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 26 and 27, article 3, and adding a new 
section, requiring the legislature to enact laws 
for optional plans of county government from 
which a choice may be made only by a vote 
of the electors of the county. Each plan shall 
continue or establish a county governing body 
and provide for distribution among county au¬ 
thorities of powers conferred on the county by 
the plan, and shall define county functions. Local 
or special laws relating to a county must be ap¬ 
proved by supervisors or other governing body 
of the county. These provisions are not to apply 
to a county wholly within a city. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. 

July 1. Amended and recommitted. 

Ausf. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

Printed Nos. 474, 726. 

No. 463. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Adding a 
new section 24 to article 6, providing that any 
court of appeals judge whose term has been 
abridged by reason of his having reached the 
70 year age limit or who shall have served not 
less than one full term on reaching the age of 
65 years, may be appointed by a vote of the 
majority of the court of appeals judges as an 
official referee, and a supreme court justice who 
has reached the age limit, or who shall have served 
not less than one full term on reaching the age 
of 65 years, may be appointed by a majority 
of the appellate division justices as an official 
referee. Any action or proceeding pending 
in the supreme court referable by statute 
or court practice in which the justice or 
court making the order or reference shall deem 
that the expense of such reference shall not be' 
borne by the parties to the action, may be re¬ 
ferred to an official referee, also any claim 
against the state upon consent of the claimant 
and of the attorney general. Such referee 
shall have such additional jurisdiction as the 
legislature may provide. The salary shall be one- 
half that which he was receiving at the time 


his office was abridged. The governor may desig¬ 
nate any official referee to serve as a supreme 
court justice for two years. While so serving 
he shall receive the salary of a supreme court 
justice for the district in which he shall reside. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 22. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 475, 712. 


No. 464. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 10, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture shall assemble on the first Wednesday in 
February instead of the first Wednesday in Jan¬ 
uary as at present. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 476. 


No. 465. By Mr. TIERNEY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 29, article 3, by providing that the pro¬ 
vision prohibiting the sale of the products of 
prison labor shall not prevent the sale ‘of elec¬ 
tricity or water to the inhabitants of villages of 
the fourth class situated within one mile from any 
state prison. 

To Prisons Com. Also to Industrial In¬ 
terests Com. for its opinion. 

July 28. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 405. 

Printed Nos. 477, 768. 

No. 466. By Mr. COBB.—Amending section 
16, article 6, by making the court of claims a 
constitutional body and providing that the pres¬ 
ent court of claims shall be continued. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 478. 


No. 467. By Mr. COBB.— Amending section 
11, article 6, by providing that judges of the 
court of claims may be removed by the senate on 
recommendation of the governor if two-thirds of 
all members elected to the senate concur. 

To Judiciary Oom. 

Printed No. 479. 


No. 468. By Mr. COBB.— Amending section 
18, article 6, by providing that the terms of 
office of judges of inferior local courts and of 
the court of claims shall not be abridced or 
terminated by any change in the statutes re¬ 
lating to such courts; reserving, however, to 
the legislature the right to abolish such courts 
and create new courts in place thereof provided 
that the judges of the courts thus abolished be 
retained for their respective terms as judges 
of the new courts. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No.* 480. 


No. 469. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Amending 
sections 4, 11 and 12 of article 7, by providing 
that each state debt hereafter created shall 
mature within not more than fifty years and in 
equal annual instalments, each of which with 
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at maturity and providing for the issuance of 
serial bonds. The aggregate of debts authorized 
for the improvement of highways shall not at 
any one time exceed $100,000,000. The legis¬ 
lature may require the county, instead of the 
county or town or both, as at present, to pay the 
proportional part of the cost of any highway 
constructed within,the boundaries of the county. 
No town shall be required to pay any part of 
the cost of such higWay improvement. 

To Finance Com. 

Julv 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

" 705.) 

Printed No. 481. 


No. 470. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Adding a new 
section to article 8, reading: “ Every funded 

debt hereafter created by the state or a county, 
city, incorporated village, town or school dis¬ 
trict, shall mature within not more than fifty 
years and in equal annual instalments; each of 
which, with accrued interest on the principal, 
shall be paid at maturity and shall not be 
refunded.” 

To Finance Com. Also to Cities Com. and 
to County, Town and Village Government 
Com. for their opinions. 

June 17. Reference changed to Cities Com. 
Also referred to Finance Com. for opinion. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced by Finance 
Com. (See Int. 705.) 

Printed No. 482. 


No. 471. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 9, reading: “ The members of 

the board of education or* similar body or the 
officers having immediate jurisdiction over the 
educational system of a city shall be appointed 
by such authorities thereof as the legislature 
shall designate for that purpose.” 

To Education Com. Also to Cities Com. for 
its opinion. 

Printed No. 483. 

No. 472. By Mr. DEYO.—Amending section 
4, article 4, sections 1 and 2, article 5, section 
12, article 8, section 9, article 10, sections 4 and 
6, article 11, and repealing sections 3, 4 and 7 of 
article 5, and renumbering sections 5, 6, 8 and 9 
of such article by providing that the secretary 
of state, comptroller, attorney-general, state 
engineer and surveyor, superintendent of public 
works and superintendent of state prisons shall 
be appointed by the governor and hold office 
during the governor’s pleasure. The governor 
shall have power to remove the comptroller only 
after giving him a statement in writing of his 
reasons and an opportunity to be heard in his 
own behalf. The superintendent of prisons in 
office on January 1, 1917 shall, unless sooner 
removed by the governor, hold office for the full 
term for which he shall have been appointed. 
The members of the state board of charities shall 
be appointed by the governor without the con¬ 
sent of the senate and any member may be re¬ 
moved by the governor, a statement in writing 
having been furnished of the reasons for such 
removal and an opportunity given for a hearing. 


Major generals shall be appointed by the gover¬ 
nor without the consent of the senate. Com¬ 
missioned officers may be removed by the gover¬ 
nor without the consent of the senate. 

To Governor and other State Officers Com. 

June 17. Referred to Military Affairs Com. 
for opinion. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed xNo. 484. 


No. 473. By Mr. LEGGETT.—Striking out 
sections 2, 3 and 4, article 13 relative to the 
offense of bribery. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 485. 


No. 474. By Mr. LEGGETT.—Striking out of 
of article 8, sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 and all of 
section 4 except the last sentence which provides 
that the legislature shall have no power to pass 
any act granting any special charter for bank¬ 
ing purposes. But corporations or associations 
may be formed for such purposes under general 
laws. 

To Banking and Insurance Committees. 

July 29. Committee reported that no change 
should be made in the Constitution on the 
subject. 

Printed No. 486. 


No. 475. By Mr. RODENBECK.—Adding a 
new section to article 1, reserving to the people 
of the state or of the political subdivision thereof 
in perpetuity, subject to such use for private or 
public purposes as the legislature may determine, 
the right, title and use of water and water¬ 
power, surplus or otherwise, not heretofore 
owned, sold, alienated or disposed of, impounded 
or created in connection with the construction or 
improvement of any public works by the state 
or political subdivision. But such use, except 
for a public use, shall be granted only upon 
just compensation or return and upon suitable 
terms provided by statute. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Public Utili¬ 
ties Com. and Canals Com. for their opin¬ 
ions. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 487. 


No. 476. By Mr. RODENBECK.—Amending 
section 14, article 6, by increasing the original 
jurisdiction of county courts to all actions for 
the recovery of money only where the defendants 
reside in the county. At present the complaint 
in such actions must demand judgment for a 
sum not exceeding $2,000. The legislature may 
provide for the transfer to a county court or to 
a local city court of actions or proceedings pend¬ 
ing in the supreme court of which the county 
court or local city court has jurisdiction. 

To Judiciary Com. 

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No. 477. By Mr. LINCOLN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4 of article 7, by providing for the payment 
in annual instalments on all debts created for 
public improvements and for the determination 
of the probable life or period of usefulness of 
proposed improvements. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed No. 489. 


No. 478. By Mr. SANDERS—Adding a new 
section 13 to article 7, providing that the state 
highways commission shall reapportion among 
the counties containing towns all funds arising 
from the sale of highway bonds so that each 
such county as far as possible shall receive out 
of the funds heretofore expended or hereafter 
available for expenditure under sections 4 and 
12, a sum equal to the sum to which such county 
would have been entitled if all such funds had 
been apportioned in the manner prescribed in 
section 4 of chapter 298, Laws of 1912. Funds 
so apportioned shall be used as far as necessary 
for completing state highway routes designated 
in section 5 of said chapter if any thereof re¬ 
main uncompleted. The state commissioner may 
determine that any uncompleted portion of the 
route or routes is not essential to the general 
plan of state highways as established by law. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 490. 


No. 479. By Mr. WESTWOOD.—Adding a new 
section 13 to article 7, providing that the pro¬ 
visions of the statute now in force requiring 
towns, villages and cities to contribute to the 
expense of the repairs of improved highways 
shall continue in force until repealed or modi¬ 
fied by law. The legislature shall annually 
make appropriation for the maintenance and 
(repairs of improved state and coiihty high¬ 
ways. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Finance 
Com. for its opinion. 

July 24. Finance Committee bill introduced. 
(See Int. 705.) 

Aug. 17. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 491, 811. 

No. 480. By Mr. DOW.— Amending section 7, 
article 7, by providing for a commission of forests 
and waters of three members appointed by the 
governor and at salaries to be fixed by law. 
The term of each commissioner shall be five years 
except that of those first appointed, one shall 
go out of office on February 1, 1917, another 
February 1, 1919, and a third February 1, 1921. 
The commission shall have exclusive control of 
the care of the forest preserve, such powers and 
duties over waters of the state and the protection 
and propagation of fish and wild game as may 
he inferred bv law, and such other powers and 
Aities as may be conferred by law. The existing 


conservation commission shall be abolished on 
January 1, 1916. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 
July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 492. 


No. 481. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 12, article 6, by increasing from 70 to 
72 years the age limit for justices or judges of 
any court or surrogates. The salary of a su¬ 
preme court justice is increased from $10,000 
to $12,000 per year. Justices of the supreme 
court assigned to service in the court of appeals 
shall receive while so assigned the salary of a 
court of appeals judge. Where additional com¬ 
pensation is now paid under existing laws to the 
supreme court justices by the district to which 
they have been elected or by a city or county 
thereof, the justices of such districts shall con¬ 
tinue to receive such additional compensation 
except that any justice assigned to the court of 
appeals shall receive such additional compensa¬ 
tion while so assigned. A supreme court justice 
receiving no additional compensation in the dis¬ 
trict of -his residence who is assigned to hold 
a term of court in a district where additional 
compensation is paid to justices thereof, shall 
receive from the district where said term is held 
additional compensation when actually engaged 
in holding court therein equal to that paid to 
the justices of the district. Judges of the court 
of appeals and supreme court justices while as¬ 
signed to the court of appeals shall receive from 
the state an amount equal to the total com¬ 
pensation paid to su)preme court justices in the 
first and second judicial districts. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 493. 


JUNE 9 

^ No. 482. By Mr. COLES.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, making the two public service 
commissions constitutional bodies and providing 
that the first district shall embrace New York 
City and Nassau and Suffolk counties and the 
second, the remainder of the State. There shall 
be five commissioners in each district appointed 
by the governor with the consent of the Senate for 
a term of 10 years. The term of one member to 
expire on February 1 in alternate years. The 
commission shall have supervision, regulation 
and control of public utilities in accordance with 
such laws as now exist or may hereafter be ' 
enacted. Any commissioner may be removed by 
the Senate on recommendation of the governor by 
a two-thirds vote of all senators elected. Each 
commissioner shall have an opportunity to be 
heard before the Senate upon charges filed against 
him. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 28. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int 
706.) 

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No. 483. By Mr. FRANK.—Amending section 
7, article 1, by providing that the only way the 
compensation shall be ascertained when private 
property is taken for a public use shall be by 
not less than three supreme court justices as¬ 
signed for not less than 5 years by the appellate 
division of the respective departments in which 
the justices are to act. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 495. 


No. 484. By Mr. FRANK.—Amending section 
7, article 1, by providing that the cost of public 
improvements may be imposed upon private prop¬ 
erty by special assessments, subject to review by 
the supreme court. But general benefits resulting 
from such improvements shall not be assessed 
locally nor shall any assessment for a special 
benefit be imposed as a personal liability nor in 
excess of the benefit actually conferred. General 
benefits shall be deemed to include such exemp¬ 
tions from assessment as may be conferred by 
law, the expenses of any proceeding for the tak¬ 
ing, injuring or assessment of private property 
and the expenses of any party to any litigation 
therefor. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 496. 


No. 485. By Mr. ADAMS.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 6 creating “ The Board of Judicial 
Appointment and Control ” to consist of every 
former, present and future court of appeals judge 
and appellate division justice retired from office 
after having served continuously at least 14 
years and having attained at least 65 years of 
age who shall become members upon filing with 
the Secretary of State their written consent. 
They shall serve during their natural life, or 
good behavior or until they shall have attained 
the age of 75 years. The board shall from time 
to time as vacancies occur or by death, resi^a- 
tion, or otherwise, appoint all judges or justices 
of courts of record and surrogates. There shall 
be an appellate division of the supreme court con¬ 
sisting of 7 justices in the first department and 
from 5 to 7 in each of the other departments, the 
number to be fixed by the board of control. The 
board is authorized to inquire into all charges 
against, and to remove any and all judges and 
surrrogates after presentation of such charges 
and a hearing thereon. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 497. 


No. 486. By Mr. DAHM.—Adding new section 
to article 3, providing for initiative and referen¬ 
dum. The people shall reserve to themselves the 
power to propose legislative measures, laws, 
resolutions and constitutional amendments and to 
enact or reject the same at the polls independent 
of the legislature and also reserve the power to 
reject at the polls any act, item, section or any 
nart of any act or measure passed by the legis¬ 
lature. Not more than 75,000 qualified voters 
shall be required to propose any measure by 


initiative petition and not more than 60,000 may 
be required to sign a referendum petition. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Legis¬ 
lative Organization Com. and to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for their 
opinions. 

Printed No. 498. 


No. 487. By Mr. REEVES.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 6, by providing that the subject 
matters over which surrogates shall have juris¬ 
diction and powers shall be the same as they now 
are, together with such others as may be desig¬ 
nated by law; and as to such subject matters 
their jurisdiction and" power shall be the same in 
law and equity, including trial by jury, as the 
supreme court has over matters within its juris¬ 
diction. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 4997 


No. 488. By Mr. FOGARTY.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
shall, by general laws of uniform application 
throughout the state, provide for the licensing 
and inspection of steam boilers and of all vessels 
subject to gaseous pressure and prescribe 
standards for the manufacture thereof.” 

■ To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Industrial Commissions Com. for 
its opinion. 

July 29. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 500, 772. 

No. 489. By Mr. BAYES.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 12, reading: “Cities shall have 
power to establish reasonable regulations and re¬ 
strictions with respect to the height and use of 
buildings, the area of courts and yards, and the 
location of trades and industries the provisions 
of which may differ in different districts in the 
interest of the protection and development there¬ 
of, the maintenance of property values or for any 
other public purpose.” 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 31. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
724.) 

Printed No. 501. 


No. 490. By Mr. BAYES.— Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 9, reading: “A pupil shall not be 
excluded from nor denied admission to any of the 
free common schools of this state by reason of 
not having been vaccinated or otherwise inoccu- 
lated with virus.” 

To Education Com. 

Printed No. 502. 


No. 491. By Mr. BAYES.—Amending section 
4, article 6, by providing that supreme court jus¬ 
tices now in office shall continue therein until 
the expiration of the terms for which they shall 
have been elected. The official terms of their suc¬ 
cessors shall be 10 years instead of 14. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 503. 





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No. 492, By Mr. SARGENT.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “The Legislature 
shall pass appropriate laws to prevent monopo¬ 
lies and combinations in restraint of trade.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Cor¬ 
porations Com. for its opinion. 

July 29. Corporations Com. reported that no 
change should be made in Constitution on 
the subject. 

Printed No. 504. 

No. 493. By Mr, A. E. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “ The legislature 

may provide that the valuaHon, for purposes of 
taxation, of property of any municipal corpora¬ 
tion located within the boundaries of another 
municipal corporation may be reviewed and fixed 
by designated state authorities.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Cities 
Com. and Taxation Com. for their opinions. 

July 8. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Sept. 3. Notice of motion to suspend rules and 
take up bill. 

Printed Nos. 505, 733. 

No. 494. By Mr. HARAWITZ.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 1, by providing that a person con¬ 
victed of any crime or any offense of a criminal 
nature may appeal as a matter of right from the 
judgment of conviction or equivalent determina¬ 
tion. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 506. 

No. 495. By Mr. FOLEY.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 4, to article 3, providing that in first class 
cities members of the legislative body shall be 
elected from districts containing as nearly as 
possible an equal number of inhabitants, exclud¬ 
ing aliens, and be in as compact form as practi¬ 
cable and to consist of contiguous territory, and 
shall be apportioned by the local legislative body 
as soon as possible after each state enumeration 
and shall remain unaltered until the return of 
another enumeration. An apportionment shall 
be subject to the review by the supreme court at 
the suit of any citizen. 

To Cities Com. 

Printed No. 507. 

No. 496. By Mr. T. F. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 8, reading: “ Property of the 
state shall not be taxed or assessed for any 

county, city, towm, village or school district 
purpose,” 

To Taxation Com. Also to County, Town 
and Village Government Com. for its 

opinion. 

Printed No. 508. 

No. 497. By Mr. T. F. SMITH.—Amending 

sections 4 and 6, article 2, by providing that all 
laws relating to registration and qualifications 
of voters, primary elections and election officers 
shall be uniform and of universal application 
throughout the state. All election officers here¬ 
after provided for to enforce the election, 

primary or registration laws shall consist of 
an even number and all laws therefor shall 


secure equal representation of the two political 
parties which at the last preceding state election 
at which a governor was elected cast the highest 
and next highest number of votes. All such 
officers shall be appointed or elected for the 
entire state in such manner and upon nomination 
of such representatives of said parties respectively 
as the legislature may direct. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 509. 


No. 498. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Striking out 
sections 1 to 9 inclusive of article 4, and sections 
1 to 9 inclusive of article 5, and substituting 
new sections 1 to 13, article 4, and new sections 
1 to 4, article 5, establishing an executive 
branch of the government, the head of whith 
shall be the governor under whom shall be an 
executive department, an executive council, a 
central bureau of administration and eleven ad¬ 
ministrative divisions as follows: The treasury, 
public works, agriculture and industry, public 
health and safety, public education, industrial 
relations, public charities and corrections, public 
utilities, insurance and banking, civil service, 
and state militia. Each shall be headed by a 
secretary except the public education division 
which shall be headed by a commissioner of 
education and president of the state university. 
The state militia shall be headed by the adjutant- 
general. A department of audit is also estab¬ 
lished at the head of which shall be the comp¬ 
troller; also a department of law, headed by the 
attorney-general. The executive department 
under the governor shall consist of the secretary 
of state and such other officers and employees as 
shall be provided by law. The executive coun¬ 
cil shall consist of the eleven executive heads of 
the several administrative divisions of the execu¬ 
tive branch. The central bureau of administra¬ 
tion shall consist of a director and such technically 
trained staff as shall be provided by law. The 
annual budget is to be prepared by the governor. 
Che governor, lieutenant-governor, comptroller and 
attorney-general are to be elected, while all the 
members of the executive council except the com¬ 
missioner of education and all executive and ad¬ 
ministrative boards and commissions shall be ap¬ 
pointed by the governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Finance Com. for its opinion. 

June 10. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Aug. 4, State budget bill introduced. (See 
Int. 709.) 

Aug, 11. State officers and departments bill 
introduced. (See Int. 716.) 

Printed No. 510. 

No. 499. By Mr. PARSONS.— Adding a new 
section to article 6, providing that there shall be 
no election of a court of appeals judge or su¬ 
preme court justice at any general election at, 
which any other state officer or any county offi¬ 
cers are chosen or within thirty days before or 
after such election. No partv designation or 
emblem shall appear upon ballots for court of 





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appeals judges or supreme court justices. The 
legislature shall have power to provide for the 
nomination of candidates for such offices by 
nomination papers signed by such number of 
electors as the legislature may prescribe or 
otherwise. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 511. 


No. 500. By Mr. PARSONS.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 6 and 7, article 1, by providing that the 
legislature may authorize the taking of more 
property than needed in the creation, laying out, 
widening, extension or re-location of parks, 
streets, highways and' public places or for the 
protection or development thereof, including rights 
in, • easements over, and limitations upon the 
use of neighboring property. But unless the ex¬ 
cess land or property shall be needed for a public 
purpose incidental to such primary purpose the 
excess shall be no more than sufficient to form 
suitable building sites abutting on such park, 
street or place. So much of the excess as shall 
not be needed for the primary purpose may be 
sold or leased. Different localities and classes of 
property may be subject to different regulations 
for their protection or any other public purpose 
including the destruction of buildings in insani¬ 
tary or vicious areas and the prohibition or re¬ 
striction of uses or structures inappropriate or 
offensive to the neighborhood or detrimental to 
the appearance of public streets. 

To Bill of Rights Com 

June 15. Referred to Conservation Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 512. 


No. 501. By Mr. PARSONS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 3, by striking out the prohibition 
that no member of the legislature shall receive 
any civil appointment in the Senate of the 
United States. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 513. 


No. 502. By Mr. SHIPMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 8, article 6,’ by providing that all vacancies 
occurring otherwise than by expiration of term 
in the office of chief or associate judge of the 
court of appeals shall be filled by the governor 
by appointment which shall continue until the 
expiration of the full term, unless at the next 
general election happening not less than three 
months after the vacancy occurs a successor to 
such chief or associate judge shall be elected in 
his stead for a full term by votes equalling 75 
per cent, of the entire number of votes cast by 
all electors for such office at such election. If 
any such appointment of chief judge shall be 
made from among associate judges or supreme 
court justices, the governor may fix the term of 
the appointment according to the length of the 
unexpired term of his predecessor or the remain¬ 
der of the term for which the appointee has been 
elected whichever shall be the longer. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 514- 


No. 503. By Mr. SHIPMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 6, by providing that vacancies oc¬ 
curring otherwise than by expiration in the of¬ 
fice of a supreme court justice shall be filled by 
the governor by appointment to continue until 
the expiration of the full term for which the 
justice has been elected unless at the next gen¬ 
eral election happening not less than three 
months after the vacancy, another supreme court 
justice shall be elected in his stead for a full 
term by votes equalling 75 per cent, of the entire 
number of votes cast by all electors for all can 
didates for the office of supreme court justice for 
which the greatest number of votes shall be cast 
at such election. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 515. 

No. 504. By Mr. SHIPMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 8, by providing that in suits 
brought by or against corporations wheresoever 
appropriate the individual rights and remedies of 
members of the corporations in relation to the 
corporation and fellow members thereof may be 
determined and adjudicated. 

To Corporations Com. 

July 29. Com. reported that no charge should 
be made in the Constitution on the subject. 

Printed No. 516. 

No. 505. By Mr. F. MARTIN.—Adding a new 
section to article 10 providing that any state 
or municipal officer or employee who receives a 
pension or similar relief from the state or munic¬ 
ipality shall not receive compensation for his 
services unless the salary or compensation dur¬ 
ing any period of such service exceeds the pen¬ 
sion or relief so received in the same period, nor 
any greater compensation than such excess, if 
any. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also Cities Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 517. 

No. 506. By Mr. F. L. YOUNG.—Amending 
section 2, article 9, by changing the name of the 
university of the state of New York to the board 
of regents of the department of education. 

To Education Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 518. 

No. 507. By Mr. ROSCH.—Amending section 
11 of article 8, by changing the name of the 
state commission of prisons to that of the state 
board of correction, the members of the state 
prisons commission to constitute the new board 
of correction. The provision that the state 
board of charities shall inspect correctional or 
reformatory institutions is stricken out.' The 
new. board of correction shall inspect all insti¬ 
tutions for the detention of same prisoners 
charged with or convicted of crime or detained 
as witnesses or debtors. 

To Prisons Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

June 18. Referred to Charities Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 519. 




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No. 508. By Mr. QUIGG.—Amending section 
9, article 5, by striking out the provision that 
civil war veterans shall be entitled to preference 
in appointment and promotion in the civil serv¬ 
ice. Every appointment or promotion not made 
according to merit and evidence of competitive 
examinations shall be reported to the legislature 
with a full statement of the occasion and reasons 
for such appointment or promotion and no such 
appointment or promotion shall be made without 
the written approval of the governor. 

To Civil Service Con. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 520. 

No. 509. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 

4, article 7, by providing that the laws creating 
state debts other than those specified in sections 
2 and 3 shall provide that the principal of the 
debts shall be paid within fifty years and that 
the bonds evidencing such debts, shall not be sold 
at less than par value plus accrued interest to 
the date of sale. Notwithstanding the provisions 
of any law heretofore or hereafter enacted and 
approved by the people, it shall be the duty of 
the officer authorized to sell bonds evidencing any 
debt, to first offer for sale serial bonds, payable 
in equitable annual instalments. If it shall ap¬ 
pear that such serial bonds cannot be sold for 
par value and accrued interest long term bonds 
shall be sold to be paid within fifty years. In 
the case of serial bonds the legislature shall 
annually appropriate money sufficient to pay the 
interest and instalments of principal and if the 
bonds are to be paid from the proceeds from a 
sinking fund, and annual appropriation shall be 
made to pay the interest on the bonds and con¬ 
tribution to the sinking fund. 

To Finance Com. 

June 22. Amended and recommitted. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed Nos. 521, 714. 

No. 510. By Mr. AUSTIN.—Amending section 

5, article 7, by striking out the last sentence 
which provides that all the funds derived from 
any lease, sale or other disposition of any canal 
shall be applied to the improvement, superinten¬ 
dence or repair of the remaining portion of the 
canals. 

To Canals Com. Also to Finance Com. for 
its opinion. 

Printed No. 522. 

No. 511. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 1, article 12, by providing that each city 
shall, subject to the constitution and to general 
laws applicable to all cities and to the power of 
the- legislature enact laws as to the organization 
and form of government thereof, exercise full 
powers of local self-government and to that end 
may, by a two-thirds vote of all the members 
of the legislative body, pass local laws for its 
government and the administration of its prop¬ 
erty and affairs and such local laws shall repeal 
or amend any existing special law insofar as it 
is inconsistent therewith, but no city shall have 
any power to pass any law affecting the courts 
therein or the government of the county or 
counties wholly or partly located therein. 


Except as provided in this section the legislature 
shall pass no special law affecting a city. The 
legislature by joint ballot is to name a legis¬ 
lative board for cities to consist of one member 
from each judicial district, which board may 
approve or veto local laws enacted by any city. 
If not vetoed in sixty days the laws go into 
effect without the board’s approval. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Government Com. for its opinion. 

June 29. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed Nos. 523, 724. 

No. 512. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Amending 
section 7, article 1, by providing that private 
property may be taken by the owner of a mill 
site for developing water-power where such 
development will not injure any lawfully exist¬ 
ing and unabandoned dam or water-mill, upon 
just compensation and upon terms and conditions 
and subject to regulations prescribed by general 
laws. The state may take private lands for con¬ 
structing, maintaining and operating reservoirs 
for regulating the flow of streams and the legis¬ 
lature may provide by general laws for appor¬ 
tioning the expense of such improvements on 
public and private property and municipalities 
benefited. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Conserva¬ 
tion Com, for its opinion. 

Printed No. 524. 

No. 513. By Mr. SCHURMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 9, by providing that the super¬ 
vision and control of the education of the chil¬ 
dren of this state shall remain the duty and 
function of the state and shall never be sur¬ 
rendered. 

To Education Com. 

July 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
698.) 

Printed No. 525. 

No. 514. By Mr. NYE.—Amending section 20, 
article 6, by providing that no.county judge or 
surrogate hereafter elected in a county having 
a population exceeding 160,000 instead of 120,000 
as at present, shall practice as an attorney or 
counselor in any court of record or act as referee. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 526. 

No. 515. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Adding a 
new section 15-a to article 6 making the court 
of claims a constitutional body to consist of three 
members appointed by the governor with the con¬ 
sent of the senate for nine year terms. Judges 
may be removed in the same manner as supreme 
court judges. The present court of claims is 
continued, the members thereof to be judges of 
the court hereby created. 

To Judiciarv Com. 

Printed No. 527. 

No. 516. By Mr. JOHNSON.—Amending sec¬ 
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impeachment and conviction, instead of impeach¬ 
ment as at present, of the governor, the powers 
and duties of the office shall devolve upon the 
lieutenant-governor for the residue of the term. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 528. 

No. 517. By Mr. JOHNSON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 4, by providing that if during the 
vacancy in the office of governor the lieutenant- 
governor shall be impeached and convicted, in¬ 
stead of impeached as at present, the president 
of the senate shall act as governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 529. 

No. 518. By Mr. JOHNSON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 13, article 6, by providing that the assembly 
at any session shall have the power of impeach¬ 
ment by a majority vote of all the members 
elected, of all civil officers of the state for wilful 
and corrupt misconduct in office or in securing 
the nomination therefor or election thereto. The 
court for the trial of impeachment shall be com¬ 
posed of the senators or a major part of them 
instead of the president of the senate, the 
senators and court of appeals judges. The chief 
judge of the court of appeals shall preside at the 
trial of impeachment against the governor or 
lieutenant-governor and the lieutenant-governor, 
the president of the senate and a senator who has 
participated in any preliminary investigation or 
presentation of charges against the accused shall 
not act as a member of the court. The governor 
and lieutenant-governor may act officially pend¬ 
ing a trial under articles of impeachment filed 
aginst them. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 530. 


No. 519. By Mr. CLINTON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 8, article 7, by providing that the prohibition 
of lease, sale or other disposition of canals shall 
apply to that part of the Erie canal now in use 
in Erie county. Commercial Slip and Slips Nos. 
1, 2 and 3 at the Erie basin in Buffalo, and to 
all canal terminals. The provision that such pro¬ 
hibition shall not apply to the canal kno^vn as 
the Main and Hamburg Street canal in Buffalo, is 
stricken out. 

To Canals Com. Also to Finance Com. for 
its opinion. 

Printed No. 531. 

No. 520. By Mr. LINCOLN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 11, article 7, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture shall not appropriate moneys as a sinking 
fund to pay the interest and discharge the prin¬ 
cipal of any state debt which by its terms is 
payable in stated annual instalments. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 532. 


No. 521. By Mr. LINCOLN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 12, article 7, by providing that general laws 
enacted pursuant to the provisions of the con¬ 
stitution in force when any highway improve¬ 


ment debt was contracted insofar as they relate 
to payment by counties or towns to any sinking 
fund of a proportionate part of the cost of any 
highway within the boundaries of such counties 
or towns, shall not be altered, amended or re¬ 
pealed and their force and effect shall not be 
diminished during the existence of any debt 
created thereunder. Debts for highway improve¬ 
ment hereafter authorized under this section 
shall be created only as provided in section 4. 

To Finance Com. Also to Public Utilities 
Com. for its opinion. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 533. 

No. 522. By Mr. DEYO.— Amending section 
11, article 6, by providing that supreme court 
justices and judges of other courts of record may 
be removed by the court of appeals justices. 
Justices of the peace and judges of any inferior 
court not of record may be removed by the ap¬ 
pellate division. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 534. 


JUNE 10 

No. 523. By Mr. COLES.—Amending section 
26, article 3, by providing that the board of 
supervisors in any county may be composed of 
such members and elected in such manner for 
such period as may be provided by a majority 
vote of the electors of the county. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. Also to Legislative Powers Com. for 
its opinion. . 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int 
721.) 

Printed No. 538'. 

No. 524. By Mr. COLES.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, requiring the legislature to 
enact laws providing for optional plans for the 
government of counties for submission to the 
electors thereof, no plan to take effect until 
adopted by a majority of votes cast by electors 
at an election to be held as the legislature may 
direct. Any such plan after it shall take effect 
in any county shall not be repealed or amended 
by the legislature except in accordance with pro¬ 
visions contained in the plan or unless a repeal 
or amendment be similarly approved by a ma¬ 
jority of the votes cast by the electors. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. Also to Legislative Powers Com. for 
its opinion. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

Printed No. 539. 

No. 525. By Mr. COLES.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, requiring that legislative bills 
providing for printing of books, pamphlets or 
maps shall include in the number thereof to be 
printed as many copies for distribution to the 
libraries and schools as the education commis¬ 
sioner may designate.’’ 

To Education Com. Also to Legislative 
Powers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 540. 


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No. 526. By Mr. BANNISTER.—Adding new 
section to article 7, providing that moneys 
derived by. the state from inlieritance taxes shall 
be used only for purposes of permanent im¬ 
provements authorized by law and any accumu¬ 
lation thereof not required for such purposes 
shall constitute a capital fund available only for 
future permanent public improvement. 

To Finance Com. 

Printed No. 541. 

No. 527. By Mr. REEVES.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 6, authorizing the appellate 
division of any department to establish a land 
division of the supreme court in any county or 
judicial district in that department, which shall 
have exclusive original jurisdiction of all actions 
and proceedings for registration of title to real 
property. The appellate division may assign 
one or more justices to the land division. Laws 
may confer administrative powers on the land 
division and may give authority to supervise and 
control surveyors, engineers, superintendents and 
commissioners of records, official examiners of 
title for registration, whether individual or cor¬ 
porate, and other administrative officers. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 542. 

No. 528. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section. 9, article 5, by providing that every 
position now in the classified competitive service 
or hereafter placed therein, shall so remain and 
shall not at any time be placed in the exempt 
or non-competitive class. No person in the 
classified civil service of the state or civil division 
thereof subject to competitive or qualifying ex¬ 
amination shall be removed except for incompe¬ 
tency, misconduct in office or insubordination 
shown, after a hearing at which the accused shall 
have the right to have counsel, and witnesses shall 
be sworn and testimony recorded. The burden of 
proof shall be upon the person alleging the in¬ 
competency or misconduct. The right of review 
by a writ of certiorari is given. The right of 
any citizen to appeal to the courts, the legisla¬ 
ture or any municipal board for redress of griev¬ 
ances shall not be denied or abridged on account 
of employment in the civil service of the state or 
civil division thereof. 

To the Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 543. 

No. 529. By Mr. BAYES.—Amending section 
1, article 11, by providing that persons whose 
religious tenets or conscientious scruples forbid 
them to bear arms shall not be compelled to do 
so in time of peace, but shall pay an equivalent 
for personal service. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Military 
Affairs Com. for its opinion. 

June 17. Reference changed to Military Affairs 
Com. Also referred to Bill of Rights Com. 
for opinion. 

Sept. 2. Military Affairs Com. recommended 
that no change be made in the Constitution 
on the subject. 

Printed No. 544. 

No. 530. By Mr. LATSON.-^Adding a new 
rsection to article 11 providing that there shall 


I be prepared and at all times maintained upon 
file in the Secretary of State’s office a complete 
roster of so much of the militia, as defined by 
this article, as shall not be enrolled in the or¬ 
ganized forces as herein provided, and the Legis¬ 
lature shall pass appropriate laws and make suffi¬ 
cient appropriations to that end. 

To Military Affairs Com. 

Printed No. 545. 


No. 531. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 

4, article 11, by providing that the Governor shall 
appoint the Adjutant-General of the State. The 
provision that he shall appoint chiefs of the 
several staff departments is stricken out. The 
Legislature may prescribe the number and quali¬ 
fications of the major-generals and aides-de- 
camp. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 135, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 546, 761. 

No. 532. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
1, article 11, by providing that every able-bodied 
male of foreign birth who has declared his in¬ 
tention to be a citizen as well as every ablebodied 
male citizen between the ages of eighteen and 
and forty-five years, who are residents of the 
State, shall constitute the militia. 

To Military Affairs Com. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 9. Recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 547, 763. 

No. 533. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 
3, article 11, by providing that the militia shall 
be fully officered at all times as well as uni¬ 
formed, armed, equipped, disciplined and ready 
for active service. 

To Military Affairs Com. 

Printed No. 548. 

\ 

No. 534. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 

5, article 11, by providing that all commissioned 
and non-commissioned officers chosen or appointed 
shall have such qualifications as the Legislature 
may deem most conducive to the improvement of 
the militia. 

To :Military Affairs Com. Also to Legisla¬ 
tive Powers Com. for its opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 124, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 549, 762, 794. 

No. 535. By Mr. LATSON.—Amending section 

6, article 11, by providing that commissioned 
officers shall be removed from office for absence 
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more instead of six months or more as at 
present. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 129, Xoes 0. 

Printed Nos. 550, 764. 


No. 536. By Mr. BRENNER.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 17 and 18, article 6, by providing that the 
electors of the several cities or of any territory 
wholly included therein shall at such time and in 
such manner as the Legislature may direct elect 
magistrates whose term of office shall be eight 
years. Their number and classification may be 
regulated by law. Justices of the peace, such 
magistrates, city judges and judges or magistrates 
of city courts not of record and their clerks may 
be removed for cause after due notice and an op¬ 
portunity of being heard. In the different cities 
the Legislature shall establish courts with either 
uniform civil or criminal jurisdiction or both. 
But no local court hereafter created shall be a 
court of record. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 551. 

No. 537. By Mr. A E. SMITH.—Repealing 
section 4, article 9, which prohibits the State or 
a subdivision thereof from aiding denominational 
schools. 

To Education Com. Also to Legislative 
Powers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 552. 

No. 538. By Mr. AHEARN.—Adding a new 
section 24 to article 6, requiring the Legislature 
to enact laws defining juvenile delinquency and 
prescribing punishment therefor. Juvenile de¬ 
linquency shall not be considered a crime. The 
Legislature shall establish a child welfare com¬ 
mission to hear charges of juvenile delinquency 
and shall prescribe rules of evidence and pro¬ 
cedure. No person charged with juvenile delin¬ 
quency shall be tried in any court or tribunal 
having criminal jurisdiction. No juvenile de¬ 
linquent shall be committed in punishment there¬ 
for to any institution to which persons convicted 
of crime "may be committed. Adequate provision 
shall be made by the Legislature‘for proper train¬ 
ing of juvenile delinquents. 

To Prisons Com. Also to Judiciary and 
Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 553. 

No. 539. By Mr. FOLEY.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion 2 to article 14 providing that amendments 
to the Constitution may be proposed by the 
people by the filing with the Secretary of State 
at least six months previous to a general elec¬ 
tion of an initiative petition containing the sig¬ 
natures of legal voters constituting at least 20 
per cent, of the votes cast for Governor at the 
last general election in each of not less than half 
of the counties of the State. If the amendment 
proposed by the initiative petition receives a 


majority of all the votes of the voters voting 
thereon such amendment shall be referred to the 
Legislature at the next regular session, and 
should a majority of all the members elected to 
each of the two llouses agree thereto such amend¬ 
ment shall become part of the Constitution. If 
the Legislature fails to approve, the amendment 
shall again be submitted to the people at the 
next general election, and if it receives a majority 
of all the votes of the electors voting thereon it 
shall become a part of the Constitution. 

To Future. Amendments Com. 

Printed No. 554. 

No. 540. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Striking out 
sections 1 to 9, inclusive, article 4, and inserting 
new sections 1 to 12, striking out sections 1 to 9, 
article 5, and inserting new sections 1 and 2, 
establishing an executive branch of the govern¬ 
ment, headed by the Governor, under whom shall 
be an executive council, a central bureau of ad¬ 
ministration and eleven administrative divisions 
as follows: The treasury, public works, agri¬ 
culture and industry, public health and safety, 
public education, industrial relations, public 
charities and corrections, public utilities, insur¬ 
ance and banking, civil service and state militia. 
A department of audit is established, at the head 
of which will be the Comptroller; .also a depart¬ 
ment of law, headed by the Attorney-General. 
The treasury division shall consist of a depart-' 
ment of taxes, of excise, of the treasurer and of 
funds, trusts and loans. The public works divi¬ 
sion shall consist of departments of highwa.ys, 
waterways, engineernig, public buildings and con¬ 
servation. The charities and corrections division 
shall consist of the departments of insane, of 
mentally deficient and epileptics, of public chari¬ 
ties and of prisons and reformatories. Th«* pub¬ 
lic utilities division shall consist of a public 
utilities board composed of not less than five nor 
more than seven members appointed by the Gov¬ 
ernor and a department of utilities responsible 
for the enforcement of the board’s orders and of 
the Public Service Law. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Finance Com. for its opinion. 

June 11. Referred also to Industrial Interests 
Com. for opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Military Affairs Com. 
for opinion. 

Aug. 4. State budget bill introduced. (See 
Int. 709.) 

Aug. 11. State departments and officers bill 
introduced. (See Int. 716.) 

Printed No. 555. 

No. 541. By Mr. STIMSON. Adding a new 
section to article 6 providing that whenever a 
vacancy in the Court of Appeals or Supreme 
Court is to be filled by election the Governor 
shall make a nomination for such vacancy and 
the person so nominated shall be indicated on the 
ballot or voting device by the words “ Recom¬ 
mended by the Governor.” No nomination to fill 
a vacancy in any judicial office shall be made by 
any partisan political organization. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 556. 





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No. 542. By Mr. STIMSON.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 6, by authorizing the Legislature 
to confer upon any inferior or local court the 
power to try without jury offenses of the grade of 
misdemeanors, and such jurisdiction, equitable and 
otherwise, as may be requisite to provide for the 
correction, protection or guardianship of de¬ 
linquent, neglected or dependent minors, and to 
compel the support of abandoned or destitute 
wives and families. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 657. 


No. 543. By Mr. PARSONS.—Adding new 
section to article 7 reading: “ The Legislature 

may authorize the acquisition by the State by 
condemnation, agreement or gift of a right to 
regulate the timber on any forest lands, including 
the protection, sale, removal or destruction 
thereof.” 

To Conservation Com. 

Printed No. 558. 


No. 544. By Mr. PARSONS.—Adding a new 
section to article 6 authorizing the Legislature 
to require the opinion of the Court of Appeals 
upon the constitutionality of proposed statutes. 
Such opinion shall be rendered after hearing, 
under rules to be prescribed by said court pro¬ 
viding for reasonable notice thereof and for the 
appearing and hearing thereat of such persons as 
seem to the said court to be interested. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 559. 


No. 545. By Mr. PARSONS.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, establishing as a branch of the 
executive department a division of industrial re¬ 
lations known as the State Labor Department, 
and in charge of a secretary of industrial rela¬ 
tions who shall be chairman of a State industrial 
council consisting of the chairman and four other 
persons appointed by and removable at the 
pleasure of the Governor. This division shall 
consist of these departments, each under the 
direction of a commissioner to be chosen by the 
State industrial council from its own member¬ 
ship: Department of statistics and publications, 
of inspection, of workmen’s compensation and in¬ 
surance, and of mediation and arbitration. The 
Legislature shall prescribe the powers and duties 
of the several departments and offices. 

To Industrial Interests Com. ’Also to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

Printed No. 560. 

No. 546. By Mr. LOW.—Adding a new section 
to article 1, providing that the land office com¬ 
missioners may issue patents for land under 
water belonging to the State to owners of abut¬ 
ting upland in such manner as is now or may 
hereafter be prescribed by law. But every such 
patent shall contain a clause reserving to the 
State and also to the municipal corporation 
within whose borders such land under water may 
lie, the right to condemn for a public purpose 


the land covered by such patent at the price paid 
to the State by the abutting owner plus cost of 
improvements as may stand thereon. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Canals Com. 
for its opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 561. 


No. 547. By Mr. LOW.—Adding a new section 
to article 3, establishing a- Legislative Drafting 
Bureau in charge of which shall be a legis¬ 
lative counsel and not less than two associate 
counsel to be appointed by the Governor, chief 
judge of the Court of Appeals and the Comp¬ 
troller. They shall hold office during good be¬ 
havior but may be removed for inefficiency or 
misconduct. The appointment or promotion of 
other assistants and employees shall be made 
according to merit and fitness. The Legislative 
counsel shall receive $7,500 a year. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 562. 


No. 548. By Mr. LOW.—Adding a new section 
30 to article 3 prohibiting the Legislature, any 
country, city, town or village or other political 
subdivision from granting a public franchise for 
an indeterminate term or for a fixed term of more 
than 25 years without in every case reserving 
to the grantor the right at the expiration of each 
period of 25 years to terminate the same. The 
reservations so to be made shall be unconditional 
and absolute except that the said grant may 
provide for the taking over, upon such termina¬ 
tion, of any improvements upon payment of the 
value not exceeding cost. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 563. 


No. 549. —By Mr. LOW.—Adding a new section 
30 to article 3, providing that lands under navi¬ 
gable waters belonging to the State or any politi¬ 
cal subdivision shall not be granted, leased or 
otherwise aliened for an indeterminate term or 
for a fixed term of more than 25 years without 
in every case reserving to the grantor, lessor or 
alienor, the right at the expiration of such period 
of 25 years, to terminate the same. The reser¬ 
vations so made shall be unconditional and abso¬ 
lute except that there may be provision for the 
taking over of any improvements upon payment. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Canals Com. 
for opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 564. 


No. 550. By Mr. TANNER.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 19, article 3, providing that the Legislature 
shall neither audit nor allow any private claim 
or account against the state or any political sub¬ 
division of the State, but may appropriate or 
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claims and accounts as shall have been audited 
and allowed according to law. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

July 8. Keported amended to Com., of the 
\Vhole. 

July 26. Placed at foot of Calendar. 

Sept. 1. Kecommitted, 

Printed Nos. 565, 732. 


No. 551. By Mr. EISNER.—Amending section 
1, article 2, by providing for woman sultrage. A 
citizen by marriage, however, in order to vote 
must have been an inhabitant of the United States 
for live years. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 566. 

No. 552. By Mr. EISNER.—Amending section 
4, article 4, by authorizing the Governor at any 
time to remove from office any state officer ap¬ 
pointed by a Governor of the State or by the 
head of any state department, bureau or com¬ 
mission, other than a judicial officer or an 
officer appointed by the Legislature or by either 
house thereof. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 567. 

No. 553. By Mr. EISNER.—Substituting a 
new article 12 giving cities and villages the right 
of self-government. They shall have the power 
to adopt and amend their own charter, and among 
other things enact ordinances, resolutions or by¬ 
laws relating to the acquisition, care and man¬ 
agement of its property including public utilities. 
Any city or village may frame and adopt its 
own charter. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Govt. Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed No. 568. 

No. 554. By Mr. EISNER.—Substituting a 
new section 19, article 1, authorizing the enact¬ 
ment of laws by the legislature precribing the 
maximum number of working hours, minimum 
wages for employees, W’hether men, women or 
children, the frequency with which wage payments 
must be made, the form of such payments, and 
other conditions of employment. Authority to 
draw express provisions relative thereto may be 
delegated by the Legislature to board or com¬ 
mission provided that provisions so determined 
upon shall become effective only after 30 days 
notice, and can be set aside by a majority vote 
of either branch of the Legislature when in ses¬ 
sion, or by the Governor when it is not in session. 
The Legislature may also enact laws for a State 
or other system of insurance of employees against 
injuries or occupational diseases or in cases of 
death resulting therefrom wutout regard to fault 
as a cause thereof except where the injury is 
occasioned by the wilful intention of the injured 
employee or where it results solely from intoxi¬ 
cation. Laws may be enacted for a State or I 


other system of insurance against death, illness, 
old age and unemployment to be maintained 
through contributions from employees and other 
beneficiaries, employers and State and local gov¬ 
erning bodies. 

To Industrial Interests. Also to Legislative 
Powers Com. for its opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
714.) 

Printed No. 569. 


No. 555. By Mr. EISNER.—Amending sections 
1, 2, 3 and 4 of article 5, by providing that the 
Secretary of State, Treasurer, and State Engineer 
and Surveyor shall be appointed by the Governor 
to hold office during his pleasure. The Superin¬ 
tendent of Public Works and the Superintendent 
of Prisons shall also hold office during the 
pleasure of the Governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 16. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

Printed No. 570l 


No. 556. By Mr. EISNER.—Adding a new 
section 30 to article 3, reading: “Laws and con¬ 
stitutional amendments may be initiated by 
popular petition and enacted by popular vote. 
Laws passed by the legislature and signed by 
the Governor may be rejected by popular refer¬ 
endum. It shall be the duty of the Legislature 
to enact such laws as may be necessary to give 
eflfect to these provisions.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 571. 


No. 557. By Mr. EISNER.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 7 to article 13 providing that all elected offi¬ 
cers and appointed officers not subject to removal 
at the pleasure of the appointing officer, shall be 
subject to recall on a vote of the majority of the 
electors of the State or political subdivision 
thereof for which the officer was elected or ap¬ 
pointed to ' serve. The Legislature shall enact 
laws necessary to give effect to these provisions. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 572. 


No. 558. By Mr. EISNER.—Incorporating a 
new article providing that the existence of a State 
of facts effecting a public interest and the means 
required for safeguarding such interest, when 
ascertained and decided by the Legislature or 
under its authority, shall not be litigable or in 
any way questioned by any court of the State, ex¬ 
cept with the expressed consent of the Legislature 
and upon such conditions as it may prescribe. 
The power to interpret the constitution and 
statutes of the State and to decide their con¬ 
stitutionality is a judicial function, to be exer¬ 
cised without prejudice from anything done or 
decided in any other case between different 
parties. On demand either of the "Assembly, 
Senate or the Governor or of silch number of 
qualified electors as the Legislature shall pre- 









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scribe, the question whether any particular legis¬ 
lative act or portion thereof shall be deemed con¬ 
stitutional shall be submitted separately to the 
qualified electors at a general or special election. 
In the event of an affirmative answer, the act or 
part thereof questioned shall be deemed to have 
been operative from its inception and shall so 
continue until repealed or altered by legislation. 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

June 16. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

Printed No. 573. 


No. 559. By Mr. GRIFFIN.— Striking out sec¬ 
tion 4, article 3, and substituting in place thereof 
a new section providing for 50 senate districts 
and 150 assembly districts and providing for a 
reapportionment of senate and assembly districts 
at the first regular session of the Legislature 
after an election for Governor. The districts 
shall be so altered so that each shall contain as 
near as may be an equal number of voters and be 
in as compact form as practicable and shall re¬ 
main unaltered until the next gubernatorial elec¬ 
tion. The State census is dispensed with, the re¬ 
apportionment to be based upon the number of 
voters participating in elections for Governor. 
To Legislative Organization Corn- 
Printed No. 574. 


No. 560. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 18, article 6, by providing that inferior 
local courts shall for the service of process in 
civil actions and proceedings, have •jurisdiction 
coextensive with the boundaries of the counties 
in which located and jurisdiction in criminal 
matters coextensive with justices of the peace in 
towns. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 575. 


No. 561. By Mr. WIGGINS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 17, article 6, by providing that justices of 
the peace and district court justices in cities 
shall, for the service of process in civil actions 
and proceedings, have jurisdiction coextensive 
with the boundaries of the coimty in which 
located and jurisdiction in criminal matters co¬ 
extensive with justices of the peace in tovms. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 576. 


No. 562. By Mr. ROSCH.—Amending section 
15, article 6, by providing that the salaries of all 
county judges and surrogates shall be fixed bv 
the legislature graded as near as may be accord¬ 
ing to the population of the respective counties. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 577. 


No. 563: By Mr. VANDERLYN.—Amending 
section 17, article 6, by providing that after 
January 1, 1917, no justice of the peace of any 


town shall exercise any judicial function in any 
civil, criminal or quasi-criminal matter of which 
justices of the peace now have jurisdiction. There 
shall be, elected in (ach county at large one trial 
justice of the peace for each 15,000 inhabitants 
and major fraction in excess thereof outside ol 
cities for such period and compensation as the 
Legislature may prescribe. Each county shall 
have at least one such trial justice. They are 
to exercise all the judicial functions heretofore 
exercised by justices of the peace. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 578. 


No. 564. By Mr. CLEARWATER.—Adding a 
new section 24 to article 6 authorizing the Legis¬ 
lature to establish children’s courts and courts of 
domestic relations, as separate courts or parts of 
existing courts or of courts hereafter to be 
created and to confer upon them such equity and 
other jurisdiction as may be necessary for the 
correction, protection, guardianship and disposi¬ 
tion of delinquent, neglected or dependent minors 
and for the punishment of adults responsible 
therefor, and of all persons legally chargeable 
with the support of wives and children. 

To Judiciary Com. Also to Prisons Com. 
for its opinion. 

Printed No. 579. 


No. 565. By Mr. CLEARWATER.—Amending 
section 11, article 8, by making the State Proba¬ 
tion Commission a constitutional body. 

To Prisons Com. Also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

July 29. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 573. 
Printed No. 580. 


No. 566. By Mr. MEALY.—Amending section 
18, article 3, by providing that no law or munici¬ 
pal authority shall authorize the operation of a 
motor bus line for the transportation of persons 
or property upon a fixed route in any city except 
upon the consent of the owners of one-half value 
of the property along the route and the consent 
also of the local authorities. In case the con¬ 
sent of the property owners cannot -be obtained 
the appellate division of the supreme court may 
appoint commissioners to determine whether such 
motor bus line ought to be constructed or 
operated. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Cities Com. 
for its opinion. 

Printed No. 581. 


No. 567. By Mr. BARNES.—Striking out 
section 18 of article 3, which specifies the cases 
in which the Legislature shall not pass a private 
or local bill and providing that, “ The legislature 
shall not pass any private or local bill, except as 
specifically herein provided.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

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No. 568. By Mr. OSTRANDER.—Amending 
section 2, article 12, by providing that a city bill 
sent to the mayor must be returned, if the Legis¬ 
lature has finally adjourned, to the House from 
which the bill was sent instead of to the Governor. 

To Cities Com. 

Printed No. 583. 


No. 569. By Mr. ANGELL.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 5 creating a conservation advisory 
board composed of the lieutenant-governor, attor¬ 
ney-general, commissioner of education, commis¬ 
sioner of public works, dean of the State college 
of forestry, ex-officio, and two additional mem¬ 
bers appointed by the Governor with the consent 
of the Senate for a 10 year term. The members 
shall serve without compensation. They shall 
have the power under such rules as the Legisla¬ 
ture may prescribe, to veto and nullify any rule, 
regulation or other act of the conservation com¬ 
mission which in their opinion is detrimental to 
the public welfare. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Julv 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
^ 708.) 

Printed No. 584. 


No. 570. By Mr. ANGELL.—Amending section 
7, article 7* by authorizing the Conservation 
Commission to provide for the sale or removal of 
mature, diseased, dead or down timber in ac¬ 
cordance with the principles of scientific forestry; 
for the leasing of camp and cottage sites and for 
the construction highways, trails and fire lanes, 
in the forest preserve. Lands outside the Adiron¬ 
dack and Catskill Parks, except those contiguous 
to Lake George may be sold under authority of 
the Conservation Commissioner. The Commission 
may provide for the use of not exceeding 3 per 
cent, of the lands in such parks for the construc¬ 
tion and maintenance of reservoirs for municipal 
water supply; for the canals of the State and to 
regulate the flow of streams. Public Service 
Corporations and power companies engaged in 
transmitting electric energy shall have the right 
to cross any portion of the forest preserve upon 
terms and conditions determined by the Conser¬ 
vation Commission. 

To Conservation Com. 

July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 585. 


No. 571. By Mr. ANGELL.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, making the conservation com¬ 
mission a constitutional body, which shall con¬ 
sist of a single commissioner appointed by the 
Governor with the consent of the Senate for a 10 
year term at a compensation to be fixed bv law. 
He may be suspended or removed from office by 
the Governor upon notice and an opportunity to 
be heard. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. I’br its opinion. - 


July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
708.) 

Printed No. 586. 


No. 572. By Mr. TIERNEY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 6, by providing that the county 
judge shall be surrogate of his county in every 
county having a population of not exceeding 120,- 
000. In any siicli county now having a separate 
surrogate his office is abolished and all pending 
proceedings transferred to the county judge and 
surrogate. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 587. 


No. 573. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Adding new 
section to article 3 reading: “ The legislature 

shall not pass any bill under the police power of 
the state nor shall any state board, commission 
or officer adopt any rule or regulation thereunder, 
unless there is a reasonable necessity for the 
exercise of such power to protect the general in¬ 
terests of the community. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

July 7. Amended and recommitted. 

July 9. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

July 21. Amended. 

Sept. 1. ]\rade Special Order following Int. 269. 

Printed Nos. 588, 728, 751. 


No. 574. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Adding new 
section to article 3 reading: “The legislature 
shall not pass any bill nor shall a state board, 
commission or officer adopt any rule or regula¬ 
tion which is unreasonable.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 589. 


No. 575. By Mr. CULLINAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 10, article 1, by providing that the people 
of the State, in their right of sovereignty or 
deemed to possess title to all the waters within 
the State’s jurisdiction. 

To Canals Com. Also to Conservation Com. 
for its opinion. 

June 23. Referred to Bill of Rights Com. for 
opinion. 

Aug. 18. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Printed Nos. 590, 817. 


No. 576. By Mr. CULLINAN.—Adding a new 
section 30 to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
may impose a tax upon the sale of cigarettes.” 
To Taxation Com. Also to Finance Com. 

for its opinion. 

Printed No. 591. 

??¥■.»!'. r-f .’--- , .T . ■ 

No. 577. By Mr. CULLINAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 7, by striking out the provision 
chat no law creating a State debt except those 
specified in sections 2 and 3, shall be submitted 





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to be voted on within three months after its 
passage or at any general election when any 
other law or any bill shall be submitted to be 
Vote*! lui or agHiiisl. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed No. 592. 


No. 578. By Mr. CULLINAN.—Striking out 
section 3, article 5 and inserting new matter pro¬ 
viding for the appointment by the Governor with 
the consent of the Senate, of a commissioner of 
•commerce and navigation for a five year term, to 
take the place of the superintendent of public 
works. He shall perform all the duties of the 
former canal commissioners and board of canal 
commissioners, and the superintendent of public 
works. 

To Canals Com. Also to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 593. 


No. 579. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending 
section 16, article 3, by providing that a law not 
theretofore held unconstitutional by any court 
shall not be held invalid by reasons of the pro¬ 
hibition against the passage by the legislature ot 
a private or local bill embracing more than one 
subject, if twenty years has expired from the time 
of the enactment of such law. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

July 15. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Printed Nos. 594, 743. 


No. 580. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a 
new section to article 3, requiring the legislature 
to provide for the regulation and supervision ot 
the business of receiving deposits of money s^ifa- 
ject to check or for repayment upon presenta¬ 
tion of any form of demand or memorandum oi 
any evidence of debt; or upon the request of the 
depositor, or in the discretion of the receiver or 
holder of such money; of receiving money for 
transmission; of discounting or negotiating 
promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange or 
other evidence of debt; and of buying or selling 
exchange. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Bank¬ 
ing and Insurance Com. for its opinion. 

July 29. Banking and Insurance Com. reported 
its opinion that no change should be made 
in the Constitution on this subject. 

Printed No. 595. 


No. 681. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding new 
section to article 3 requiring the legislature to 
provide for the supervision and regulation of all 
exchanges, boards and like places operated for 
the purpose of trading or contracting to trade in 
stock certificates or bonds or securities of any 
kind and 'business connected in any way with 
such exchanges whether conducted by principals or 


brokers. After December 31, 1916, no exchange 
or like place shall exist unless authorized by law. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Bank- 
in and Insurance Com. for its opinion. 

July 29. Banking and Insurance Com. reported 
its opinion tliat no change should be made 
in the Constitution on the subject. 

Printed No. 596. - 


No. 582. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Repealing 
section 8, article 5 which abolishes offices for 
weighing, gauging, measuring, culling or inspect¬ 
ing any merchandise, produce, manufacture or 
commodity whatever and which prohibits the 
creation of any such office. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 11. Reference changed to Industrial 
Interests Com. Copy to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 597. 


No. 583. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding a new 
section to article 5, empowering the State treas¬ 
urer to visit and have general supervision and 
control over the financial management of all in¬ 
stitutions of the State, subject to the power of 
audit by the Comptroller. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 598. 


No. 584. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding new 
section to article 3, providing that the Legisla¬ 
ture, by joint ballot, shall choose three competent 
attorneys-at-law for five year terms at a com¬ 
pensation fixed by law, to serve as commissioners 
to prepare and report to the Legislature bills for 
the revision and consolidation of the general laws 
of the State. They shall also act as counsel to 
the Legislature and its members. State officers 
and such officers of civil divisions as the Legis¬ 
lature may'provide in preparing, amending and 
revising bills. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

Printed No. 599. 


No. 585. By Mr. GREEN.—Adding a new 
section to article 10, providing for a commissioner 
of jurors in each county to be ^appointed by the 
county judge and resident supreme court justices, 
if any, or a majority of them, for five year terms. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 600. 

No. 586. By Mr. GREEN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, providing that each elector shall 
be entitled to as many votes as shall equal the 
number of assemblymen and he may cast all of 
such votes for a single assemblyman or may dis¬ 
tribute them among the number to be voted for 
or any two or mo^p of them as he may see fit. 
The legislature shall provide means for such 
votinar. 

To Suffrage Com. 

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Wo. 587. By Mr. GREEN.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, providing that in counties within 
New York City there shall continue to be assem¬ 
bly districts, constituted or to be constituted as 
provided in this article, as units of representa¬ 
tion for which members of assembly shall be 
chosen, but after the next apportionment and 
alteration of assembly districts, all members of 
assembly from such districts shall be chosen by 
the electors of such city at large. 

To Legislative Organization Com. Also to 
Suffrage Com. and Cities Com. for their 
opinions. 

Printed No. 602. 


No. 588. By Mr. MANDEVTLLE.—Amending 
section 18, article 6, by providing that any in¬ 
ferior local court now or hereafter established 
within any city, shall in civil actions acquire 
jurisdiction over any person or corporation when 
the mandate or process of such court shall have 
been duly served upon said person or corporation 
within the county wherein the court is established. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 603. 


No. 589. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Amending 
section 15, article 3, by providing that no bill 
shall be passed or become a law unless it shall 
have been printed and upon the desks of the 
members of the legislature in its final form and 
so many copies thereof as the legislature may 
prescribe, mailed to the county clerk of every 
county at least 15 days prior to its final passage 
except a bill appropriating money for public 
safety or to relieve suffering on a scale too large 
to be relieved through the ordinary methods pro¬ 
vided by law. Neither branch of the legislature 
shall adjourn for more than three consecutive days 
while a bill is pending appropriating money to 
carry on the executive or judicial departments 
of the state or providing for raising money to 
meet such appropriation. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 604. 


No. 590. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Amending 
section 7, article 6, by providing that whenever 
the causes before the court of appeals on Decem¬ 
ber 30, 1916 have been disposed of by such court 
the judges thereof shall become members of the 
appellate division and shall serve in the depart¬ 
ment in which they reside unless designated by the 
Governor to serve in some other department. No 
appeal may be taken to the court of appeals after 
December 30, 1916. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 605. 


No. 591. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Amending 
section 2, article 6, by providing that there shall 
be 8 justices in the appellate division first de¬ 
partment and six in each of the other depart¬ 
ments. The appellate division in any depart¬ 
ment, by an order, may allow an appeal from 
its decision to the supreme court in banc in any 
cause in which a question arises requiring a 


construction of any provision of the state con¬ 
stitution or the constitutionality of any legisla¬ 
tive law or any question which has been decided 
by an appellate division with which decision a 
majority of the justices do not concur; provided 
the question raised has not previously been ad¬ 
judicated by the court of appeals or the supreme 
court in banc. 

To Judiciary Com. • 

Printed No. 606. 


No. 592. By Mr. MANDEVILLE.—Amending 
section 3, article 6, by providing that no justice 
shall sit in a supreme court in banc in review 
of a decision made by him or by any court of 
which he was at the time a sitting member. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 607. 


No. 593. By Mr. PARMENTER.—Repealing 
sections 11 and 12, article 8 and substituting new 
sections 11 and 12 establishing a department of 
charities and corrections under the direction of 
a secretary and consisting of divisions for the 
care of the insane, the commissioner of which 
shall have associated with him in an advisory 
capacity a state hospital council of seven persons 
appointed by the Governor; for the care of men¬ 
tally deficient epileptics, the commissioner of which 
shall have associated with him a mental deficiency 
council of seven persons appointed by the Gov¬ 
ernor; of public charities, the commissioner of 
which shall .have associated with him a state 
board of public charities of nine persons one from 
each judicial district to be appointed by the 
Governor; of prisons and reformatories, the com¬ 
missioner of which shall have associated with 
him a state prison council of seven persons ap¬ 
pointed by the Governor. As a part of this last 
division there shall be a state board of parole 
of five persons appointed by the secretary of 
charities and corrections. The legislature shall 
prescribe the powers and duties of the several 
divisions, offices, councils and boards. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 16. Reference changed to Charities Com. 
Also referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 608. 

No. 594. By Mr. PARMENTER.—Amending 
section 1, article 10, by providing that sheriffs, 
county clerks, district attorneys and registers 
shall be elected or appointed for such terms and 
in such manner as the legislature by general laws 
shall direct. At present they must be elected 
every three years except in New York and King« 
where they may be elected everv two or four years. 
The compensation of such officers shall not be 
increased or diminished during their term. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

Printed No. 609. 


No. 595. By Mr. PARMENTER.—Amending 
section 18. article 6, by abolishing all courts of 
local or limited jurisdiction after January 1, 
1917 except in New York City. The legislature 
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criminal jurisdiction for the whole state except 
New York City, to have uniform jurisdiction but 
not any equity jurisdiction nor any greater juris¬ 
diction in other respects than is conferred upon 
county courts. The legislature shall divide the 
state into districts by counties and provide for 
the number of judges in each district and their 
salary. The new court shall not be a court of 
record. 

* To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 610. 


No. 596. Br. Mr. LEGGETT.— Amending sec¬ 
tions 1 and 2 , article 2, by providing that to be 
entitled to vote a citizen shall possess at least 
one of these qualifications; at the time of offer¬ 
ing his vote he shall have a family for whom he 
has provided during one year, or he shall not 
more than twelve months and not less than six 
months before offering his vote have paid a tax of 
not less than $2, or during not less than six 
■aonths of the year next preceding the offer of his 
vote he shall have been engaged in an employ¬ 
ment or calling yielding him means of support. 
Section 2 is practically stricken out and a new 
provision made prohibiting a person from voting 
who has ever been convicted of a felony or has 
within three years from the time of offering his 
vote been convicted of a misdemeanor or has been 
supported or whose wife or minor children have 
been supported wholly or in part at public ex¬ 
pense during the year immediately preceding the 
time of offering his vote. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 611 . 


No. 697. By Mr. TUCK.—Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 1, providing that just compensa¬ 
tion shall be made for damage to real proporty 
from changing the grade of a street or hignway 
adjoining such property. The causing of such 
damage shall be deemed the taking of private 
property for public use. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. G12. 


No. 598. By Mr. CURRAN for Mr. DAmi.— 
Adding new section to article 1 reading: “Any 
act which any person may legally and lawfully do 
shall be held to be legal and lawful when done by 
two or more in concert.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 613. 


No. 599. By Mr. CURRAN for Mr. DAHM.— 
Amending section 8, articlel, by providing that no 
officer or court of the state or political division 
thereof shall restrain the liberty of speech or of 
the press. The question as to whether the rights 
of freedom of speech, or of the press, have been 
abused, shall be determined by a jury. In all crim¬ 
inal prosecutions for libel no person shall be found 
guilty and be punished where the matter alleged 
to be libelous be true unless the alleged libelous 


matter was written and published with criminal 
motives and for wrongful ends. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 614. 


No. 600. By Mr. CURRAN for Mr. DAHM.— 
Amending section 2, article 3, and section 1, article 
14, by providing that Senators shall be elected for 
one year instead of two years as at present. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 615. 


No. 601. By Mr. O’CONNOR.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 3, by eliminating the provision 
permitting the passage of bills upon emergency 
message from the Governor. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other 
State Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 616. 


No. 602. By Mr. C CONNOR. Adding new 
section to article 5, by providing that the State 
Department of Labor and the Workmen’s Com¬ 
pensation Commission shall be separate bodies. 
The Department of Labor shall be in charge of 
a single commissioner, whose term shall be 
fixed by the Legislature at not less than six 
years. There shall be five members of the Work¬ 
men’s Compensation Commission whose term 
shall be fixed by the Legislature so that the term 
of one shall expire on January 1 of each odd 
numbered year after the Commission is estab¬ 
lished. 

To Indiistrial Interests Com. Also to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

Printed No. 617. 


No. 603. By Mr. 0 CONNOR.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 19, article 1, by providing for a State insur¬ 
ance fund as the exclusive method for securing 
the payment of workmen’s compensation. 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Bill 
of Rights Com. and Finance Com. -for their 
opinions. 

Printed No. 618. 


No. 604. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by providing that the right of a 
person not to be held to answer for a capital or 
othervvise infamous crime unless on presentment 
or indictment of a grand jury may be waived as 
the Legislature may provide except in the case of 
murder. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

June 22. Referred to Judiciary Com. for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 619. 


No. 605. By Mr. KIRBY.—Amending section 
1, article 5, by providing that the Attorney- 
General shall have exclusive charge of the legal 





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affairs of the various State departments. The 
power now possessed by any State officer, board 
or department for employing attorneys and 
counsel is hereby abolished. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 620. 


No. 606. By Mr. SEABS.—Amending section 
1, article 10, by providing that sheriffs, county 
clerks, district attorneys, county treasurers, 
county auditors, and registers in counties having 
county auditors or registers shall be elected once 
in every two or four years as the Legislature 
shall direct. All such elections, except to fill 
vacancies, shall be held in odd numbered years. 

To County, Town and Village Government 
Com. Also to County, Town and Village 
Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 621. 


No. 607. By Mr. SEARS.—Amending section 
10, article 6, by providing that every election of 
a chief or associate judge of the Court of Ap¬ 
peals, or of a Supreme Court justice, the Gov¬ 
ernor shall nominate one candidate by filing a 
certificate with the Secretary of State not less 
than ten weeks before the time of the election. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 622. 


No. 608, By Mr. LINCOLN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 14, article 6, by providing that county courts 
shall have original jurisdiction in actions for the 
recovery of money only where the defendants are 
corporations, domestic or foreign, having an office 
for the transaction of business within the county 
and in which the complaint demands judgment 
for not exceeding $2,000. 

To Judiciary Com. Also to Corporations 
Com. for its opinion. 

June 15. Amended and recommitted. 

July 29. Corporations Com. reported its opinion 
that no change should be made in the Con¬ 
stitution on the subject. 

Printed Nos. 623, 685. 


No. 609. By Mr. LINCOLN.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 13, by providing that any person 
taking a false official oath or affirmation may be 
impeached or removed from office therefor and 
shall be incompetent to hold any office of honor 
or profit in the State during the term for which 
he was elected or appointed, or after such term, 
unless such disability shall first have been re¬ 
moved by law. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Prisons 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 624. 


No. 610. By Mr. WHIPPLE.—Adding a new 
section to article 5, by making the State Excise 
Department a constitutional department, in 
charge of a commissioner appointed by the Gov¬ 
ernor with the consent of the Senate for a five- 
year term. The commissioner may be removed 
by the Senate on recommendation of the Governor 


if two-thirds of the members elected thereto con¬ 
cur. No law now existing or hereafter enacted 
shall operate to vest or constinue in any officer 
or body any power or duty imposed upon the 
commissioner by this section. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 625. 


No. 611. By Mr. WESTWOOD.—Amending 
sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14 to 20 inclusive, 
and 22 and 23 of article 6, by abolishing the Ap¬ 
pellate Division of the Supreme Court and in¬ 
creasing the number of judges of the Court of 
Appeals, thereby providing for a single appel¬ 
late court; by abolishing the court of claims, the 
county courts, the surrogate’s courts, the court 
of general sessions of the peace for the city and 
county of New York and the city court of New 
York city and conferring their jurisdiction upon 
the Supreme Court, thereby providing for a single 
court of record of original jurisdiction; and by 
providing for uniform inferior courts not of 
record in first class cities and uniform inferior 
courts not of record in the balance of the State. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 626. 


No. 612. By COMMITTEE ON TAXATION.— 
Adding new section to article 5, making the State 
Tax Commission a constitutional body, to be com¬ 
posed of three members appointed "by the Gov¬ 
ernor with the consent of the Senate for six 
year terms, the commissioners first appointed to 
hold office for two, four and six years. Any 
member may be removed by the Governor for 
cause, an opportunity having been given such 
member to be heard in his defense. 

To Taxation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 627. 


JUNE 11 

No. 613. By Mr. WEED.—Amending section 13, 
article 12, by giving cities local self-government 
subject to the constitution and general laws. They 
shall possess all the powers now or hereafter 
vested in them by general or special laws and may 
amend or add to their charter which shall be its 
local municipal law. Such local law which may 
prescribe the method of further amendment shall 
first be drafted by the legislative body of the city 
and after approval by the mayor, if there be one, 
may be adopted by a majority vote of the electors. 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced, (See Int. 

712.) 

Printed No. 629, 


No. 614. By Mr. WEED.—Amending section 9, 
article 5, by providing that Spanish war veterans, 
who were citizens and residents of the state of New 
York at the time of enlistment, shall next after 
civil war veterans be entitled to preference in ap¬ 
pointment in the civil service of the state and civil 









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division thereof without regard to their standing 
on any list from which such appointment may be 
made. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. Minority report 
filed. 

Printed No. 630. 

No. 615. By Mr. BUXBAUM.— Am ending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 4 , by providing that on the first 
Wednesday following the expiration of thirty days 
after final adjournment, the legislature shall meet 
to reconsider bills in the hands of the governor 
after adjournment which shall not have been ap¬ 
proved by him. If such bills are approved by two- 
thirds of the members elected to each house they 
shall become laws notwithstanding the failure of 
the governor to approve them. x4ny special city 
bill returned not accepted by the city after final 
adjournment or not returned within the fifteen- 
day period before such adjournment, may also be 
passed at such subsequent session of the legisla¬ 
ture, and if passed, shall be subject to the action 
of the governor. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to G-overnor 
and Other State Officers Com. and to Cities 
Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 631. 

No, 616. By Mr. BUXBAUM.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 4, by empowering the legislature 
to provide in the resolution for final adjourn¬ 
ment that it shall meet on the first Wednesday 
following the expiration of thirty days after such 
adjournment to consider bills in the hands of the 
governor after such adjournment which shall not 
be approved by him. In the absence of such pro¬ 
vision, the governor shall issue his call requiring 
such subsequent session if within ten days after 
the adjournment, at least ten senators and thirty 
assemblymen make a written request to the gov¬ 
ernor therefor. At the subsequent meeting of the 
legislature any bill not approved by the governor 
or any special city law not accepted by the city 
or not returned within the fifteen-day period may 
be passed by a two-thirds vote of the members 
elected to each house. A city bill, however, shall 
be subject to the action of the governor. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to G-overnor 
and Other State Officers Com. and to Cities 
Com. for their opinions. 

Printed No. 633. 

No. 617. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 7, article 1, by providing that the legisla¬ 
ture may authorize cities to take more land and 
property than is needed for the improvement of 
navigation of navigable waters or streams. The 
provision that compensation for the taking of 
private property for a public use may be as¬ 
certained by not less than three commissioners 
appointed by a court is stricken out. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Canals Com. 
for its opinion. 

June 17. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 633. 

No. 618. By Mr. STEINBRINK. — Amending 
article 10 bv adding a new section 10, providing 
that any person receiving a pension by virtue of 


employment by the state or any political subdi¬ 
vision thereof shall forfeit such pension during the 
time that he retains any office or employment in 
any branch of the state government or political 
subdivision thereof. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Also to Cities Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 634. 


No. 619. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Adding a 
new section 24-a to article 3, reading: “ The prop¬ 
erty, real and personal, of the state, counties, 
cities, towns and other municipal corporations 
used exclusively for a state, county, city, town, 
or other municipal purpose, shall be exempt from 
taxation.” 

To Taxation Com. Also to Cities and Finance 
Corns, for their opinion. 

Printed No. 635. 

No. 620. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 24, article 3, by providing that all taxes 
shall be equal and uniform throughout the state 
and shall be levied and collected under general 
laws prescribing regulations as shall secure a just 
and equal valuation for taxation on all property. 
A state board of tax commissioners appointed by 
the governor shall determine such valuation. Any 
such action may be reviewed by any municipality 
acting on its own behalf or on behalf of any tax¬ 
payers. 

To Taxation Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 636. 


No. 621. By Mr. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 17, article 6. by continuing the municipal 
court of the city of New York with the present 
number of justices and such additional justices 
as the legislature may prescribe. Justices now in 
office shall hold office until their terms expire. 
Upon the expiration of the term of any justice, 
who shall have served the full term, he may be 
continued for further terms of ten years each upon 
filing with the county clerk at least three months 
before his term expires, a certificate of a presiding 
justice or of the justice presiding in the appellate 
division for the department where the municipal 
court district is located that the said justice ha-s 
served the public in a satisfactory manner and has 
performed the duties of his office ably and 
efficiently. The municipal court may be given ad¬ 
ditional jurisdiction bv the legislature, but it shall 
have no greater jurisdiction than the county court 
as to subject matter and amount. • 

To .Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 637. 


No. 622. By Mr. BAIiDWIN.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, giving the chief judge of the 
court of apneals and the presiding justices of the 
appellate divisions the rip^ht to veto any hill 
amending or repealing or adding provisions to the 
code of civil procedure, their action to be certi¬ 
fied to the legislature within fifteen days of the 
receipt of the bill. The legislature, however, may 
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not returned by the chief judge and appellate di¬ 
vision justices within fifteen days it shall require 
no further action by the legislature to become a 
law, subject to action by tlie governor as other 
bills, unless the legislature shall adjourn before 
the fifteen days expire. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 638. 


No. 623. By Mr. TANNER.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 10 to article 4, reading: “ The governor may 
remove any officer appointed bj^ him, other than 
a judicial officer, for cause at any time, giving to 
him a copy of the charges against him, and an op¬ 
portunity to be heard in his defense.” 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Printed No. 639. 


No. 624. By Mr. WICKERSHAM.—Amending 
section 18, article 3, by providing that no private 
or local bill shall be passed by the legislature 
unless it shall have been first presented to the 
legislature by written petition signed by one or 
more persons actually interested in the measure 
and setting forth the reasons for requesting its 
enactment. Such petition and proposed bill 
to be filed with the secretary of state not 
less than fifteen days before the regular session 
begins and to be open for public inspection for 
at least ten secular days prior to the intro¬ 
duction of the measure in either house. Pro¬ 
vision is made for the publication of such pe¬ 
tition and proposed bill and for notice of public 
hearing before the appropriate committee of the 
house into udiich the bill shall be introduced. No 
such bill shall be enacted after the expiration of 
the first sixty days of the regular session. The 
secretary of state, upon the filing of any such pe¬ 
tition and bill, must deliver a copy thereof to the 
attorney-general who shall examine the same and 
attend all hearings thereon. 

To Legislature Powers Com. 

June 15. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

July 9. Reported for consideration, without 
recommendation. Consideration of report 
postponed to July 12. 

July 12. Action further postponed to July 14. 

July 14. Referred to Com. of the Whole. 

July 24. Amended. 

July 26. Placed at foot of Calendar. 

Printed Nos. 640, 759. 


No. 625. By Mr. LOW.— Adding new section 
to article 3, providing that territory shall not be 
added to nor taken from a county, city, town or 
village • without the consent of a majority of the 
electors voting thereon within the municipalities 
affected thereby. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Yillasfe Government Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 641. 


No. 626. By Mr. C. NICOLL.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 2, article 3. by reducing after January 1, 
1917, the number of senators from 51 to 25, and 
the number of assemblymen from 150 to 75, and 


by increasing the terms of senators from two to 
four years and of assemblymen from one to two 
years. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 642. 


No. 627. By ]\Ir. BELL.— Repealing sec¬ 
tion 5, article 4, which relates to the pardoning 
power of the governor, and amending section 11, 
article 8, by providing for the creation of a state 
board of pardons of five members, appointed by 
the governor, one from each judicial department 
and one to be chosen at large. Their term shall 
be five years and they shall be members of the bar, 
and shall not hold any other public office. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Prisons Com. for its opinion. 

June 25. Reference changed to Prisons Com. 
Also referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 643. 


No. 628. By Mr. PARSONS.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 15, article 3, by providing that upon the final 
passage of a bill in either house of the legislature 
the name of every member must be called. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 644. 


No. 629. By Mr PARSONS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 5, article 7, by providing that there may in 
any year be paid into the state treasury so much 
of the income from any sinking fund as shall in 
such year exceed the amount needed to provide the 
interest, and such sum as with like annual sums 
until the maturity of the debt and the assets of 
such sinking fund and the accumulations of such 
sums and assets, estimated on a 3 per cent, basis, 
will discharge the principal of the debt on ma¬ 
turity. It shall not in any year be necessary to 
levy so much of any direct tax in this article di¬ 
rected to be collected to pay interest or make 
sinking fund contributions for any debt as shall 
exceed the amount which, in addition to the in¬ 
come from the sinking fund in connection with 
such debt, shall be needed to provide both interest 
and sums as will discharge the principal. 

To Finance Com. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

^ 705.) 

Printed No. 645. 


No. 630. By Mr. PARSONS,—Adding a new 
section to article 5, requiring the governor to sub¬ 
mit to the legislature within five weeks after the 
regular session opens, estimates of expenditures 
of the state for the ensuing fiscal year with ap¬ 
propriation bills, and within nine weeks after such 
opening a budget containing a financial plan ac¬ 
companied by summary statements setting forth 
actual and estimated revenues and expenditures 
for the current, next preceding and ensuing fiscal 
years, current assets, liabilities and surplus or 
"deficit and a debt statement, the condition of the 
treasury fund, proposed revenue bills which pro¬ 
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refunding the public debt as he shall deem desir¬ 
able and a message in support of and explanatory 
of the statements. The governor may submit 
special appropriation or borrowing bills in case of 
a public emergency. All such bills submitted by 
the governor shall have preference in the legis¬ 
lature over all other business except emergency 
business. The governor, department heads and 
the comptroller may appear personally in support 
of such bills before the legislature. The legisla¬ 
ture may not, except by a three-fourths vote, alter 
an appropriation or borrowing bill except to strike 
out or reduce an item. 

To Finance Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. and Governor and Other State Officers 
Com. for their opinion. 

Aug. 4. Substitute bill introduced. (Sae 
Int. 709.) 

Printed No. 646. 


No. 631. By Mr. LEARY.—Adding new section 
7-a to article 7, providing that all revenues from 
hunting or fishing licenses and from fines or pen¬ 
alties for violation of the fish and game law and 
for trespasses upon forest preserve lands shall he 
used exclusively for the propagation of fish and 
game and reforestation of state lands. 

To Conservation Com. Also to Finance Com. 
for its opinion. 

July 30. Substitute bill introduced. (See 
Int. 708.) 

Printed No. 647. 


No. 632. By Mr. DONNELLY.— Amending the 
tax provisions by adding a new section providing 
that not less than 50 per centum of any income, 
inheritance, mortgage, corporation, "franchise, 
liquor, automobile and excise taxes which may be 
collected by the state shall be returned to the town 
or village in which the said income and other 
above enumerated taxes originated. 

To Finance Com. 

June 15. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 648. 


No. 633. By Mr. DONNELLY.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 1, by providing for the payment of 
damages to private property caused by change of 
grade. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 649. 


No. 634. By Mr. DONNELLY.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 26, article 3, by providing that boards of su¬ 
pervisors shall only have such local legislative 
powers as are now possessed by them and as the 
legislature may confer. They shall not contract 
for, purchase or procure for the counties or any 
officers thereof any property, goods, wares and mer¬ 
chandise of any character. All contracts therefor 
shall be made by a purchasing agent appointed by 
the supervisors, but not a member thereof. All 
claims against the county on account thereof shall 
be audited by a county comptroller who shall be 
elected in each county where supervisors exist, in 
1916, for a period of six years. He shall receive 


such compensation as the supervisors shall pre¬ 
scribe. 

To County, Town and Village Govt. Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

Printed No. 650. 

No. 635. By Mr. DONNELLY.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5, by providing that the secretary 
of state, treasurer and state engineer and sur¬ 
veyor shall be appointed by the governor with the 
consent of the senate and shall hold office during 
the governor’s pleasure. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 651. 

No. 636. By Mr. F. MARTIN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 6, article 1, by providing that nothing con¬ 
tained in this section shall prevent an appeal by 
the people from an order or determination in a 
criminal action or proceeding or in a proceeding 
of a criminal nature, except from a verdict of ac¬ 
quittal rendered by a jury or the judgment 
thereon, if the legislature shall so provide. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Judiciary- 
Corn. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 652. 


No. 637. By Mr. LIINMAN.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 11, 13' and 15, article 8, and repealing sec¬ 
tion 12, article 8, and section 4, article 5, by pro¬ 
viding that the legislature shall provide for a sta-t« 
board of charities and corrections of not less than 
nine members for terms not less than nine years, 
except that the first appointments shall be so made 
that there shall be one vacancy each year there¬ 
after. They shall be elected by the legislature in 
the same manner as the state regents. They shall 
have control of state hospitals for insane, state 
prisons and reformatories and state charitable in¬ 
stitutions. The state board of charities, state com¬ 
mission in lunacy, superintendent of state prisons 
and state commission of prisons are abolished and 
their powers and duties transferred to the new 
board. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. Also 
to Charities and Prisons Committees for 
opinion. 

Printed No. 653. 


No. 638. By Mr. HINMAN.—Amending section 
6, article 10, by providing that the fiscal year 
shall begin on January 1, and that the legislature 
shall meet each month of the year except during 
July and August. The salaries of members shall 
be paid monthly and their actual traveling ex¬ 
penses shall be paid upon verified, detailed 
vouchers. 

To Legislative Organization Com. Also to 
Finance Com. for its opinion. 

Printed No. 654. 


No. 639. By Mr. HINMAN.— Inserting a new 
article making the two public service commissions 
constitutional bodies, the first district to com¬ 
prise New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens and Rich- 




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mond counties and the second district all the 
other counties. There shall be five commissioners 
for each district, appointed biy the governor with 
the consent of the senate. The commissioners 
shall be appointed to succeed the present commis¬ 
sioners as their terms expire as follows: In Feb¬ 
ruary, 1916, a commissioner in each district for 
the term expiring February 21, 1922; February, 
1917, for a term expiring February 1, 1924; Feb¬ 
ruary, 1918, for a term expiring February 1, 1926; 
and in February, 1919, for a term expiring Feb¬ 
ruary 1, 1928; in February, 1920, for a term ex¬ 
piring February 1, 1930. Thereafter the term of 
each commissioner shall be ten years. The salary 
shall be $15,000. Commissioners may be removed j 
in *the same manner as supreme court justices. 
Public service commissions shall have exclusive 
jurisdiction to fix just and reasonable regulations 
as to services rendered under the terms of their 
franchises by public utilities subject to their juris¬ 
diction and to fix just and reasonable maximum 
fares and charges subject, however, to judicial 
review. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

June 15. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion.. 

July 28. Substitute'bill introduced. (See Int. 
706.) 

Printed No. 655. 

No. 640. By Mr. BARNES.—Amending section 
7, article 1, by providing that service, rendered 
by a public utility to the inhabitants of a mu¬ 
nicipality on any street, highway or public place, 
shall not be duplicated by a public utility pro¬ 
posing to render a similar'service, unless the pub¬ 
lic service commission, having jurisdiction over 
the utility on such street, highway or public place, 
shall, after a public hearing of all parties inter¬ 
ested, determine that public convenience and neces¬ 
sity require such duplication. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

June 15. Referred to Cities Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 656. 

No. 641. By Mr. McKEAN.— Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that every position now 
or hereafter in the classified service shall so re¬ 
main, and shall not be placed in the exempt or 
noncompetitive class. No person holding a posi¬ 
tion in the classified civil service of the state or 
any civil division, subject to competitive or test 
examination, shall be removed except for incom¬ 
petency, misconduct or insubordination shown 
after a hearing at which the accused shall have 
the right to have counsel. The burden of proof 
shall be upon the person making the allegation. 
The right of review by writ of certiorari is 
granted. The right of any citizen to appeal to the 
court, legislature or municipal commission for re¬ 
dress of grievances shall not be denied on account 
of employment in the civil service. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

I^rinted No. 657. 

No. 642. By Mr. McKEAN.—Amending section 
9, article 5, by providing that all civil service em- 
-^lovees in the state and its subdivisions who have 


served for ten years or more shall be entitled to 
preference in all promotion examinations and in 
retention in the service, subject to the same rights 
as the civil war veterans. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 658. 


No. 643. By Mr. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 1, by striking out the provision that 
the legislature shall pass appropriate laws to pre¬ 
vent any lottery or sale of lottery tickets, pool¬ 
selling, bookmaking or any other kind of gambling. 
All lotteries, sales of lottery tickets, poolselling, 
bookmaking and all kinds of gambling are hereby 
prohibited within this state. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 659. 


No. 644. By Mr. BRACKETT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 9, article 1, by striking out the present pro¬ 
hibition against lotteries or sale of lottery tickets, 
})oolselling, bookmaking or other kinds of gam¬ 
bling, and providing tliat “ all lotteries, sales of 
lottery tickets, poolselling, bookmaking and all 
kinds of gambling are hereby prohibited within 
this state,” without legislative enactment. 

To Bill of Rights (^om. 

Printed No. 660. 


No. 645. By Mr. LANDRETH.—Adding new 
section article 5, creating a state department 
of engineering and public works after January 1, 
1917, to be in charge of a state engineer and sur¬ 
veyor who shall, however, exercise his powers and 
discharge his duties with respect to policies, plans 
and contracts subject to the approval of a board 
consisting of the state engineer, attorney-general 
and comptroller. Tlie board and the state engineer 
as executive officer thereof shall have exclusive 
control of investigations, designs, construction, 
maintenance and operation in relation to canals; 
waters, water .power and drainage; highways; 
state lands, boundaries and surveys; standards of 
weights and measures and testing; state buildings 
and structures. Each such subjects shall be placed 
in a separate department bureau headed by a chief 
administrative officer appointed by the state en¬ 
gineer subject to the approval of the board. Noth¬ 
ing herein contained shall confer on the state en¬ 
gineer, board or any bureau the power to regulate 
public utilities now subject to the jurisdiction of 
the public service commission. The offices of su¬ 
perintendent of public works and the canal board 
are abolished. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

June 17. Referred to Canals Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 661. 

No. 646. By Mr. VAN NESS.—Adding a new 
section to article 8, providing that bonds author¬ 
ized by the state or a county, city, village, town 
or school district shall be made to mature in an¬ 
nual instalments, commencing not more than five 
years from date of issue of bonds. The principal 
and interest of any such bonds maturing in any 
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ceed the sum of principal and interest of bonds 
maturing in the preceding year. All such bonds 
shall mature within forty years from date of 
issue. Any bonds issued for an improvement not 
of a permanent character shall mature within a 
period of the probable utility of the improvement. 

To Finances Com. Also to Cities Com. for its 
opinion, 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 662, 

No. 647. By Mr. WATERINIAN.—Amending 
sections 11, 12, 13 and 15, article 8, and inserting 
a new section by providing that the state board of 
charities shall consist of not less than one mem¬ 
ber from each judicial district and shall have 
the power of visitation and inspection over all 
societies and associations and institutions under 
either public or private control and of a charitable 
or reformatory character and all societies dealing 
with dependent or delinquent minors or those 
without proper guardians. The general fiscal con¬ 
trol of state charitable and reformatory institu¬ 
tions shall be vested in a state comptroller. De¬ 
tailed reports of receipts and disbursements must 
be filed annually with the state charities board 
by organizations collecting or receiving or dis¬ 
bursing money for charitable, benevolent, civic or 
humane purposes, the moral or mental improve¬ 
ment of men and women or the creation of senti¬ 
ment therefor. Each state charitable and refor¬ 
matory institution shall be manged by a board of 
seven or more managers appointed by the governor 
with the consent of the senate. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Charities Com. for its opinion. 

June 16. Reference changed to Charities Com. 
Also referred to Governor and- Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No 663. 

No. 648. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—^Amending sec¬ 
tion 3, article 8, by providing that “All stock cor¬ 
porations shall hereafter elect all of their di¬ 
rectors annually, and each stockholder shall have 
the right to vote his share cumulatively or dis- 
tributively. All votes for directors shall bo cast 
in person or by mail and for candidates previously 
nominated pursuant to regulations to be prescribed 
by the legislature.” 

To Corporations Com. '' 

July 29'. Committee reported that no change 
should be made in Constitution on the 
subject. 

Printed No. 664. 

No. 649. By Mr. E. N. SMITH.—Adding new 
section 4 to article 7, providing that all bonds or 
corporate stock hereafter issued by the state or 
any municipal corporation shall be serial, the last 
instalment to run for not more than fifty years 
and in no event for a term longer than the life 
of the improvement. Each bond or stock issue 
shall be payable in equal annual instalments. 

To Finance Com. Also to Cities Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 24.’ Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
705.) 

Printed No. 665. 


No. 650, By Mr. COBB.—Amending sections 1, 
2 and 3, article 12, and adding new sections 4 and 
6, by requiring the legislature to provide for 
the organization of cities and incorporated vil¬ 
lages by the passage of general laws applicable 
alike to all cities or incorporated villages. Each 
city may frame and adopt or amend a charter 
but no charter or any ordinance passed there¬ 
under shall contain any provisions inconsistent 
with the constitution or general laws of the state 
or any special city law which the legislature is 
authorized to enact. The legislature shall at its 
next regular session provide such general laws ap¬ 
plicable to all cities and the procedure by which a 
city may frame its own charter. If the legisla¬ 
ture fails tc make such provision the local legis¬ 
lative body of a city may make such provision. 
The legislature shall not pass any special city 
law relating to the property, affairs or govern¬ 
ment of any single city in the exercise of its purely 
municipal functions, but may enact a special city 
law relating to a single city in the exercise of its 
State or governmental functions. 

•To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Govt., for its opinion. 

June 17. Amended and recommitted. 

* Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed Nos. 666, 698. 


No. 651. By Mr. COBB.—Amending section 4, 
article 2, by providing that voters not residing in 
cities and villages having 5,000 inhabitants or 
more shall not be required to apply in person for 
registration at any meeting of officers having 
charge of the registry of voters, instead of at the 
first meeting of such officers. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 667, 


No. 652. By Mr. COBB.—Amending section 2, 
article 2, by providing that the legislature shall 
enact laws excluding from the privilege of voting 
any person receiving or offering to pay to another 
any moneys for giving or withholding a vote or 
who makes any promise to influence the giving or 
withholding of any such vote or become interested 
in any bet or wager depending upon the result of 
any election. The legislature shall prescribe ap¬ 
propriate oaths to be administered to persons 
challenged for any of the foregoing causes. Laws 
enacted as herein provided shall be made applicable 
to anv primary and preliminary elections that may 
be held. 

To Suffrage Com, 

Printed No. 668. 

No. 653. By Mr. COBB.^Adding a new section 
to article 3, reading: “ No member of the Senate 
or Assembly shall act as attorney or counsellor 
for any person or corporation before any Execu¬ 
tive or Administrative department of the State 
Government, or represent the State in any action 
at law.” 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

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No. 654. By Mr. GKEEN.—Amending section 1, 
article 2, by providing that any person in the 
employment of and receiving a salary or wages 
from any municipality or county shall be pro¬ 
hibited from voting for the elective officers of such 
municipality or county. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 670. 

No. 655. By Mr. GREEN. —Amending sections 
1 and 2, article 12, by providing that the legis¬ 
lature may by general laws only regulate and fix 
• wages, hours of work and providing for the pro¬ 
tection, welfare and safety of persons employed 
by the state or any civil division thereof or by 
any contractor or subcontractor performing work 
for the state or civil division. All of section 2 is 
stricken out, and new matter inserted requiring 
the legislature to provide for the organization of 
cities and incorporated villages and, before the 
submission of any charter to the voters of the 
locality affected, to pass, as to their legality, upon 
the charters under which such cities or villages 
seek incorporation. The legislature shall not have 
power to prevent the free operation of the prin¬ 
ciple of home rule. The charters of cities and vil¬ 
lages shall not be altered, except upon majority 
vote of the electors thereof. The legislature may 
in a general act define the limitations of the 
powders of cities and villages and generally restrict 
their power of taxation and assessment, etc. 

To Cities Com. Also to County, Town and 
Village Govt. Com. for its opinion. 

June 16. Referred to Industrial Interests Com. 
for opinion. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Aug. 19. County Government Com. bill intro¬ 
duced. (See Int. 721.) 

Printed No. 671. 

No. 656. By Mr. GREEN. —^Adding a new sec¬ 
tion to article 5, providing that every citizen of 
the age of 21 shall be subject to jury duty, except 
public official, clergymen, physicians, lawyers and 
editors whose service shqll be voluntary. The 
legislature shall pass a law creating the office of 
state commissioner of jurors to be appointed by 
the governor with the consent of the court of ap¬ 
peals. The commissioner shall appoint a deputy 
for each supreme court district. The county clerks 
shall serve as commissioners of jurors, their pay 
to be an assessment against the litigants in the 
courts. No person who does not understand the 
vernacular language of the people of the United 
States shall serve as a juror except in courts of 
local jurisdiction. A person shall not serve as a 
juror in any court more than once during any con¬ 
tinuous twelve months. 

To Judiciary Com. Also to Governor and 
Other State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 672. 

No. 657. By Mr. RHEES. —Amending section 9, 
article 5, by making the state civil service com¬ 
mission a constitutional body. No person subject 
to civil service rules shall be paid any compensa¬ 
tion for services until the state commission has 


certified that he has been appointed pursuant to 
the provisions of this section and of laws to carry 
the same into effect. The state commission may 
delegate its powers, including power of certifica¬ 
tion to any local or special commission estab¬ 
lished by law. 

To Civil Service Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 673. 

No. 658. By Mr. RHEES.—Amending section 9, 
article 5, by continuing the state civil service com¬ 
mission as now established. All powers now exer¬ 
cised by any municipal civil service commission 
shall vest in a state commission, if taken away 
by law from said municipal commission. The 
governor may remove a state commissioner for 
cause of any kind after charges have been served 
on him and an opportunity given for public hear¬ 
ing. The state commission shall have final juris¬ 
diction to determine the practicability of all ex¬ 
aminations and no position in the classified serv¬ 
ice shall be exempted from competition by statute. 
The legislature may confer on the commission ad¬ 
ditional powers, including authority to regulate, 
discipline and removal, to prescribe standards of 
efficiency and to standardize salaries and grades. 

To Civil Service Com. 

June 15. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 31. Reported adversely. 

Printed No. 674. 

No. 659. By Mr. TUCK.— Amending section 3, 
article 11, by providing that all male citizens now 
between the ages of 18 and 21 years and hereafter 
all such citizens on becoming 1*8 years of age shall 
serve one year of original enlistment in the or¬ 
ganized active militia of the state. 

To ^Militarv Affairs Com. 

Sept.. 2. Military Affairs .Com. recommended 
that no change be made in the Constitu¬ 
tion on the subject. 

Printed No. 675. 

No. 660. By Mr. DAHM.— Amending section 1, 
article 3, by providing for the initiative and refer¬ 
endum. Not more than 75,000 qualified voters 
shall be required to propose any measure by initia¬ 
tive petition, and not more than 60,000 may be 
required to sign a referendum petition against 
measures passed by the legislature. No act except 
emergency measures passed by the Igislature shall 
go into effect until ninety days after the adjourn¬ 
ment of the session. All measures referred to a 
vote of the people by referendum petition shall 
remain in abeyance until such vote is taken. Any 
measure submitted to the peole shall become a 
law Avhen approved by a majority of the votes cast 
thereon. The Governor shall have no right to 
veto such measures. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 676. 

No. 661. By Mr. CURRAN.—Adding a new 
section 7 to article 1 and renumbering existing 
section 7 and subsequent sections by providing 
that “ Capital punishment shall be forever abol- 






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ished in this state and punishment by imprison¬ 
ment substituted therefor.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 677. 

No. 662. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 1, 2, 3, article 12, and adding new sections 
4 to 6, inclusive, authorizing cities to adopt and 
amend their own charters and giving cities which 
exercise this power the power to manage, regu¬ 
late and control their own property, affairs and 
government subject to , provisions of law applica¬ 
ble to the state at large or to all cities of the 
state without classification or distinction, includ¬ 
ing, among other things, power to manage, con¬ 
trol and regulate the duties, qualifications, mode 
of selection, number of terms of office and com¬ 
pensation of city officers and employees, police 
and health officers and employees and non-judi¬ 
cial officers and employees attached to courts 
not of record and the issuance of bonds. It is 
not to include the regulation or control of pub¬ 
lic education, subjects of taxation, operation of, 
public utilities by private corporations or the 
future acquirement thereof by the city, the exer¬ 
cise of the power of eminent domain without the 
limits of the city, allowing claims against the 
city for torts, establishing the jurisdiction of 
local inferior courts or the annexation of terri¬ 
tory, except that the legislature may ‘delegate 
to such cities power to regulate such matters. 
Cities which have adopted such charters are to 
be known as home rule cities and other cities as 
legislative charter cities. The classification of 
cities into first, second and third class is abol¬ 
ished. The present provisions of sections 2 and 
3 with certain changes are made applicable to 
legislative charter cities only. The legislature 
may delegate to the latter cities such powers as 
it deems expedient. 

To Cities Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 5. Cities Com. bill introduced. ;J^ee int. 
712.) 

Aug. 11. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 678, 796. 

No. 663. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 2, by providing that in the event 
of the approval by the people at the general elec¬ 
tion in 1915 of the woman suffrage amendment 
proposed by the legislature, said section 1 of 
article 2 shall be amended as set forth in the 
amendment proposed by the legislature. 

To Suffrage Com. 

Printed No. 679. 


No. 664. By Mr. SEARS.—Amending sections 
4 and 8 of article 6 and section 5 of article 10, by 
providing for the election of chief and associate 
judges of the court of appeals and supreme court 
justices in odd-numbered years only. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 680. 


No. 665. By Mr. SANDERS.— Amending sec¬ 
tion 10, article 8, by providing that debts incurred 
by all first class cities provide for a supply of 


water shall not be included in 10 per cent, debt 
limitation fixed by this section. 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 9. Substitute bill introduced. (See. Int. 
713.) 

Printed No. 681. 

No. 666. By Mr. NIXON.—Amending section 4, 
article 9, by making inspection of denominational 
schools compulsory upon the legally constituted 
authorities. No text looks for secular teaching 
in the common branches in any school, either pub¬ 
lic or private, denominational or otherwise, shall 
be permitted, except the regular text books printed 
in English, authorized by the educational author¬ 
ities of the district in which such school is located. 

To Education Com. * 

Printed No. 682. 

No. 667. By Mr. WESTWOOD.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 13, article 3, by providing that neither house 
of the legislature shall pass more than fifty bills 
in any one calendar week. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

July 14. Reference changed to Legislative Or¬ 
ganization Com. 

Printed No. 683. 

I 


JUNE 15 

No. 668. By Mr. BRACKETT.—Adding a new 
section 16 to article 8, providing that the super¬ 
vision and control of the protection of the health 
of the people of the State shall be the function and 
duty of the State for which purpose the legisla¬ 
ture shall provide for the maintenance and sup¬ 
port of a state department of health. There shall 
be levied and collected annually upon the assessed 
property of the state a tax of at least one 
twentieth of a mill as a special fund that shall 
be available for the maintenance and support of 
the state health department. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Also to Finance Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

716.) 

Printed No. 684. 


JUNE 16 

No. 669. By Mr. BANNISTER.—Adding new 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
shall have power to limit the height and dimen¬ 
sions of buildings in cities, towns and villages of 
the state, by provisions which apply to such cities, 
towns and villages generally, or to part^ or dis¬ 
tricts therein, and to amend such limitations 
from time to time.. Such power may be exercised 
directly or by authorizing cities, towns or vil¬ 
lages to exercise the same in such manner as may 
be provided by the legislature.” 

To Cities Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. for opi»nion. 

Aug. 31. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
724.) 

Printed No. 686. 






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No. 670. By Mr. BANNISl'ER.—Adding ne^y 
section to article 3, reading: “The legislature 
shall have power to limit the use and character 
of the occupancy of buildings in the cities, towns 
and villages of the state, by provisions which ap¬ 
ply to such cities, towns and villages generally, 
or to parts or districts therein, and to amend such 
limitations from time to time. Such power may 
be exercised directly or by authorizing cities, 
towns or villages to exercise the same in such 
manner as may be provided by the legislature.” 

To Cities Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 31. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
724.) 

Printed No. 687. 

No. 671. By Mr. BANNISTER.—Adding a new 
section to article 1, reading: “The legislature 
shall have power to authorize the cities, towns 
and villages of the state to take real property 
which is dangerous to public health or safety, 
and to sell or lease the same subject to such re¬ 
strictions as may be deemed to be in the public 
interest. Property taken pursuant to this pro¬ 
vision shall be deemed to be taken for public 
use.” 

To Cities Com. Also to Bill of Rights Com. 
for opinion. 

Aug. 31. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
724.) 

Printed No. 688. 

No. 672. By Mr. LEITNER.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion to article 3, reading: “No law shall be 
passed prohibiting a doctor of medicine or sur¬ 
geon from receiving pecuniary compensation for 
services rendered in a public institution of the 
state or of any county, town or city.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

Printed No. 689. 


JUNE 17 

No. 673. By Mr. M. J. O’BRIEN.—Amending 
section 4, article 3, by striking out the provisions 
that no county shall have four or more senators 
unless it shall have a full ratio for each senator, 
that no county shall have more than one-third of 
all the senators, that no county shall be divided 
in the formation of a senate district except to 
•make two or more senate districts wholly in such 
county, and that no two counties or the territory 
thereof as now organized, which are adjoining 
counties, or which are separated only by public 
waters, shall have more than one-half of all the 
senators. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

dune 25. Amended and recommitted. 

June 29. Reported adversely. Motion to dis¬ 
agree with adverse report tabled. 

June 30. Motion to disagree taken from table 
and debated. Action postponed to July 1. 

July 1. Motion to disagree with adverse report 
lost, 99 to 36. Adverse report adopted. 
Printed Nos. 690, 722. 

No. G74. Bv ^Ir. M. SAXE.—Adding new sec¬ 
tion 20 to article 1. providing that whenever it 
shall appear to the mayor or to the board having 
the apportionment of the funds of any city of 


more than 300,000 inhabitants that the continued 
operation of any public franchise upon, over or 
under any street or public places has become, 
owing to the growth or development of the city 
or for other cause, dangerous to the health or 
comfort of a considerable portion of its inhabi¬ 
tants, or injurious to the public welfare, the city 
authorities may apply to the Appellate Division 
for the appointment of three or more commission¬ 
ers. Upon a report of such commissioners find¬ 
ing such continued operation to be dangerous or 
injurious, the city authorities may cause the 
operation of the franchise or portion thereof, to 
cease upon payment of damages or may substi¬ 
tute another route upon adjustment of damages 
or expenses. 

To Cities Com. 

Printed No. 691. 

No. 675. By Mr. FRANCHOT.—Adding a new 
section to article 5, requiring the legislature in 
joint session during January next following the 
election of the Governor, to elect an auditor-gen¬ 
eral for a term of four years. He may be re¬ 
moved by the legislature on charges after an 
opportunity to be publicly heard and to be repre¬ 
sented by counsel. He shall make such examina¬ 
tions and reports of the fiscal accounts and af¬ 
fairs of the executive, administrative and judi¬ 
cial departments of the state and its civil divis¬ 
ions as the legislature shall direct. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Also to Finance Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 692. 

No. 676. By Mr. BERRI.— Amending section 
2, article 12, by providing that no mandatory act 
relating to the appropriation or expenditure of 
city moneys passed by the legislature, affecting 
any city or class of cities shall be come effective, 
until it shall have been approved by the mayor 
of tbe city or cities affected. 

To Cities Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. for opinion. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Printed No. 693. 

No. 677. By Mr. QUIGG.—Amending section 
8, article l,*by providing that where a publication 
has been found by a jury after prosecution, civil 
or criminal, to be a libel, the judgment, in addi¬ 
tion to such other penalties as may by law be 
provided, shall include the requirement that the 
defendant shall publish or cause to be published, 
in form to be prescribed by the court, a statement 
of the facts of the matter as determined by the 
verdict, and such publication shall be made as 
the court prescribes. The legislature shall enact 
laws to secure this reparative publicity and to 
punish any failure to comply with the terms of 
the judgment, as an obstruction of the adminis¬ 
tration of justice. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also Judiciary Com. 
for opinion. 

Printed No. 694. 

No. 678. By Mr. DUNMORE.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 1, 4 and 6 of article 2, and section 1, arti¬ 
cle 12. by empowering the legislature to pro- 
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any election district and who is the owner 
of real property subject to taxation within 
an organized summer resort in which he does 
not reside may vote at elections of its offi¬ 
cers and upon any or all propositions duly sub¬ 
mitted, relating to its affairs, if the permanent 
residents and nonresident taxpayers of such re¬ 
sort aggregate at least 200 in number. The 
legislature may also provide for the organization 
of summer resorts outside of cities and villages. 
Any such resort shall have such local municipal 
powers as the legislature shall deem expedient, 
not greater than the powers which it is authorized 
to confer upon a village, 

To Suffrage Com. 

July 8. Reference changed to County, Town 
and Village Government Com. 

Aug. 19. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
721.) 

Printed No. 695. 


No. 679. By COMMITTEE ON TAXATION.— 
Adding a new article providing that the power 
of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended 
or contracted away, except as to the securi¬ 
ties of the state or a civil division thereof. 
Hereafter no exemption from taxation shall be 
granted except by general laws and upon the 
affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the mem¬ 
bers elected to each house. Taxes shall be 
imposed by general laws and for public pur¬ 
poses only. The legislature shall prescribe how 
taxable subjects shall be assessed and provide 
for offlicers to execute laws relating to the 
assessment and collection of taxes, any pro¬ 
vision of section two of article ten of this 
constitution to the contrary notwithstanding, 
and shall provide for the supervision, review 
and equalization of assessments. For the as¬ 
sessment of real property, heretofore locally 
assessed, the legislature shall establish tax 
districts, none of which, unless it be a city, 
shall embrace more than one county. The as¬ 
sessors therein shall be elected by the electors of 
such districts or appointed by such authorities 
tliereof as shall be designated by law. The legis¬ 
lature may provide that the assessment roll of 
each larger district shall serve for all the lesser 
tax districts within its boundaries. The legisla¬ 
ture may, however, provide for the assessment 
by state authorities of all the property of desig¬ 
nated classes of public service corporations. 

To Taxation Com. 

July 22. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Wednesday, 
August 11. 

Aug. 12. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 16. Motion to amend, tabled. 

Aug. 17. Amended. 

Aug. 26. Ameiided. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 109. Noes 28. 

Sept. 4. Resolution for separate submission to 
voters, referred to Special Committee on 
manner of submitting the Constitution and 
amendments. 

Sept. 10. Convention determined that the 
proposition should be separately sub¬ 
mitted. 

Printed Nos. 696, 756. 806, 812, 834. 


No. 680. By COMMUTE ON LEGISLATIVE 
ORGANIZATION.—Amending section 4, article 
3, by requiring the legislature in 1926 or as soon 
thereafter as practicable, to reapportion senate 
and assembly districts, the reapportionment to 
be based upon the next preceding federal census 
or state enumeration. In such apportionment not 
more than one-half of all the senators and not 
more than half of all the members of assembly 
shall be chosen from the counties, as now con¬ 
stituted, wholly contained within a single city 
and the provision that no county shall be divided 
in the formation of a senate district except to 
make two or more senate districts wholly in such 
county, is stricken out as are also the provision.s 
that no county shall have four or more senators 
unless it shall have a full ratio for each senator, 
or have more than one-third of all the senators, 
and that no two adjoining counties shall have 
more than one-half of all the senators. 

Referred to Committee of the Whole. 

July 7. Recommitted to Legislative Organi¬ 
zation Com. 

Printed No. 697. 


JUNE 18 

No. 681. By Mr. DONOVAN.— Adding new 
section to article 1, reading: “Nothing in this 
constitution shall limit the power of the Legisla¬ 
ture to enact laws providing for such curative or 
preventive measures, or both, as may be deemed 
expedient for the treatment of persons afflicted 
with specific animal poisons of a contagious or 
infectious nature.” 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 701. 

No. 682. By Mr. WAGNER.—Adding new 
section to article 6 continuing the court of special 
sessions of New York City, the justices thereof 
to hold office until the expiration of their terms. 
Their successors shall be elected either by ap¬ 
pointment by the mayor or by election in the 
manner prescribed by the Legislature. The mayor 
may temporarily designate one or more justices 
of the special sessions court to sit as justice 
either of the court of general sessions for New 
York county or the county court, as the case, 
may be, upon a certificate of a majority of the 
general sessions .iudges and of the county court 
judges that a condition of congestion exists with 
respect to the criminal calendar or that a judge 
is temporarily incapacitated. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 792. 


No. 683. By Mr. LOW.—Adding new section 
to article 7 reading, “No pension system shall 
be created hereafter by the State *or by any 
county or municipal corporation thereof except 
upon an actuarial basis certified to as sound by 
some competent actuarv.” 

To Finance Com. Also to Legislative Powers 
Com. for its opinion. 

June 23. Reference changed to Civil Service 
Com. 

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No. 684. By Mr. HAFFEN.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 4, article 3, by providing for an apportion¬ 
ment of senate and assembly districts by the 
Legislature at the first regular session after the 
return of the enumeration of 1915, the districts 
to remain unaltered until the return of the next 
Federal census. No county shall have three or 
more senators unless it shall have a full ratio 
for each senator. The ratio for apportioning 
senators shall always be obtained by dividing the 
number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, by the 
total number of senators fixed by this. Convention 
not exceeding 56. 

To Legislative Organization Com. 

Printed No. 704. 


' No. 685. By Mr. BLAUVELT.—^Amending sec¬ 
tion 7, article 1, by providing that where private 
property shall be "taken or injured by a munici¬ 
pal corporation for a public use, the compensation 
therefor, but no other expense of the condemning 
party, may be assessed upon the property bene¬ 
fited. No municipal corporation having power 
'to condemn lands or interests therein for public 
use, shall, without the consent of the owner, take 
possession of the same until compensation there¬ 
for shall have been paid or tendered or deposited 
to the credit of the owner or until a sum to be 
determined by the supreme court shall have 
been so paid, tendered or deposited. The fair 
cost of other lawful municipal public improve¬ 
ments may be assessed upon the property bene-' 
fited, subject to review by the supreme court. 

To Bill of Rights Com. 

Printed No. 705. 

No. 686. By Mr. C. H. YOUNG.—Adding new 
section to article 2, reading: “After January 1, 
1918, no person shall become entitled to vote by 
attaining majority, by naturalization or otherwise 
unless such person is also able, except for physi¬ 
cal disability, to read and write English. Suit¬ 
able laws shall be passed by the legislature to 
enforce this provision.” 

To Suffrage Com. 

June 24. Amended and recommitted. 

July 22. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 3. Amended. 

Aug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 
371. 

Aug. 25. Com. of the Whole reported favor¬ 
ably. Action on report postponed to 
Aug. 26. 

Aug. 26. Motion to agree with Com. of MTiole 
report, lost. (Bill killed.) Ayes 67, Noes 
77. 

Printed Nos. 706, 717, 776. 

No. 687, By LANDRETH.—Amending section 
7, article 1, by providing that the necessary use 
of lands for the construction and operation of 
works serving to retain, exclude or convey water 
for agricultural, mining, milling, domestic or 
sanitary purposes is hereby declared to be a 
public use for which such property may be taken 
upon the payment of just compensation. 

To Bill of Rights Com. Also to Conservation 
Com. for its opinion, 

Printed No. 707. 


No, 688. By Mr. LANDRETH.—Adding new 
section to article 5 providing for the appointment 
by the Governor with the Senate’s consent of a 
public service commission of 5 members, each com¬ 
missioner to hold office for 10 years, the terms 
to be so arranged that one member shall retire 
on February 1, each year. Each commissioner 
shall have had experience in connection with 
public utilities. The* commission shall supervise 
common carriers, all water supply, irrigation, 
drainage, gas, power, lighting, heating, intelligence, 
transmitting and other public utility corporations. 

To Public Utilities Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State OflBcers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 28. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
706.) 

Printed No. 708. 

No, 689, By Mr. FOBES.^Amending sections 
2 and 3, article 12, by providing that tiu*- Ligis- 
lature may enact laws with respect to. cities, their 
trovernment, property and affairs. But any such 
law, must relate and its provisions apply uni¬ 
formly to all cities of one or more classes. The 
cities of the State shall have authority to ex¬ 
ercise all remaining powers of local self-govern¬ 
ment, and their several legislative bodies may 
enact laws with respect to their property and 
affairs in so far as such laws shall not be for¬ 
bidden by, or in conflict or inconsistent with this 
constitution or laws of the state as from time to 
time enacted. All elections of county officers 
elected in all counties wholly within a city, ex¬ 
cept to fill vacancies, shall be held in odd-num¬ 
bered years. This section which provides for 
the election of city officers including supervisors 
and inferior court judicial officers in odd num¬ 
bered years is made to apply to third class cities, 
which are now excepted. 

To Cities Com. 

Aug. 5. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
712.) 

Printed No. 709. 


No. 690. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Adding new 
section to article 6, reading: “The Legislature 
may, from time to time, delegate to judges of the 
court of appeals or justices of the supreme court, 
or surrogates or to any number of them, power to 
make, amend and repeal rules and regulations in 
relation to rights, remedies, practice and procedure 
in civil actions and proceedings. Such rules and 
regulations while in force shall have the effect of 
statute.” 

To Judiciary Com. 

June 25. Amended and recommitted. 

Printed Nos. 710, 720. 


JUNE 22 

No. 691. By COUNTY, TOWN AND VILLAGE 
OFFICERS COM.—Amending section 1, article 10, 
by making the office of coroner a constitutional 
office and providing that coroners shall be chosen 
onre in every three years except in New York 
and Kings and in counties whose boundaries are 
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chosen every two or four years as the legislature 
shall direct. 

To County, Town and Village Officers Com. 

Also to Judiciary Com. for opinion. 

Printed No. 711. 


JUNE 23 

No. 692.' By COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.— 
Amending sections 2, 4, 5 and 11, article 7, by 
providing that the state may, to meet casual 
deficits or failures in revenues, contract debts, 
for the purposes for which appropriations have 
been made, and within the amounts appropriated 
therefor for the fiscal year and in anticipation 
of the receipt of taxes and revenues. Notes or 
revenue bonds payable within one year may be 
issued for debts so contracted. The present debt 
limit of $1,000,000 is removed. Debts may be 
paid by a series of annual payments to begin not 
less than one year after the debt is contracted. 
No law authorizing the contraction of a debt on 
behalf of the state shall be enacted unless the 
chief engineer of the department having in charge 
the work or object for which the debt is con¬ 
tracted shall have filed with the legislature a 
statement showing the probable life of and period 
of substantial usefulness of the improvement to 
be erected by the proceeds of the loan, the last 
instalment of the debt to be payable not later 
than the time so specified. When any sinking 
fund shall equal in amount the debt for which it 
was created, no further contribution shall be 
made thereto. Contributions to the sinking fund 
shall be made annually by appropriation by the 
legislature. 

To Finance Com. 

July 12. Amended and recommitted. 

July 24. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 

705.) 

Printed Nos. 716, 739. 


JUNE 25 

No. 693. By Mr. HAFFEN.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 2, 3 and 4. article 3, by providing that the 
senate shall consist of 55 members. The term 
of Senators is increased from two to four years. 
The assembly shall consist of 168 members and 
their terms are increased from one to two years. 
Provision is made for apportioning Senators to 
the several counties until after the next Federal 
census. New York county is given 10 Senators; 
Kings, 9; Bronx, 3; Richmond ,and Rockland, 1, 
and Queens. 2. Senate and Assembly districts are 
to be apportioned by the Legislature at the first 
regular session after the return of the State enu¬ 
meration of 1915. 

To LeHslfltive Organization Com. 

Printed No. 723. 


JULY 7 

No. 694. By Mr. J. G. SAXE.—Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 5. by establishing an executive de¬ 
partment headed by the governor, a department 


of audit headed by the comptroller, a department 
of law headed by the attorney-general, a depart¬ 
ment of state headed by the secretary of state, 
and a department of education. Following ar“ 
the main divisions of the executive department: 
Treasury, public works, agriculture and industry, 
public health and safety, industrial relations, pub¬ 
lic charities and corrections, public utilities, insur¬ 
ance and banking, civil service, and state militia. 
The treasury division shall have jurisdiction of the 
equalization of assessments and the enforcement 
of the tax laws, the safe-keeping of public moneySf 
purchase, sale and care of public lands and shall 
consist of the departments of taxes, of excise, of 
the treasurer, and of funds, trusts and loans. 
The public works division shall consist of the 
departments of highways, waterways, engineering, 
public buildings, and conservation. The public' 
health and safety division shall consist of the 
departments of public health and of public regu¬ 
lation. The charities and corrections division 
shall consist of the departments of insane, of the 
mentally deficient and epileptics, of public chari¬ 
ties, and of prisons and reformatories. The public 
utilities division shall consist of two public 
service commissions and of a department of 
utilities. The elective offices of treasurer and of 
state engineer and surveyor are abolished. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Aug. 11. Substitute bill introduced. (See Int. 
716.) 

Printed No. 727. 


JULY 8 

No. 695. By LEGISLATIVE POWERS COM¬ 
MITTEE.—Amending section 13, article 6, oy 
providing that in case of an impeachment, within 
ton days the court for the trial of impeachment 
shall be convened by the chief judge of the court 
of appeals or the president pro tempore of the 
senate. 

To Judiciary Com. 

Printed No. 731. 


JULY 9 

No. 696. By LEGISLATIVE POWERS COM- 
^TTEE.—Amending generally article 3, by abol¬ 
ishing the executive emergency message, and pro¬ 
viding that the. Legislature shall not audit or 
allow any private claim against the State or any 
civil division thereof, but may appropriate monev 
to pay such claims against'^ the State as shall 
have been audited and allowed according to law. 
It abolishes the provision of section 25 requiring 
three-fifths as a quorum of the Legislature for 
certain purposes. The Legislature shall not pass 
any private or local bill granting to any corpora¬ 
tion, association or individual the right to prove 
a claim against the State or anv civil division 
thereof or authorizing any civil division to allow 
any claim. 

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July 29. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 5. Reported to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 25. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Made Special Order. 

Sept. 1. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 2. Amended in revision. Passed, Ayes, 
123; Xoes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 737, 770, 833, 859, 861. 


JULY 15 

No. 697. By LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION 
COMMITTEE.—Amending section 6, article 3, by 
increasing from $1,500 to $2,500 the annual sal¬ 
ary of each member of the Legislature and . reim¬ 
bursing them for the railroad fare actually paid 
in going to- and returning from sessions of the 
Legislature not oftener than once each week. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 4. To third reading. 

Aug. 5. Motion to reconsider vote by which 
Com. of the Whole report advancing to 
third reading was agreed to, lost. 

Aug. 18. Recommitted to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 20. Made Special Order following Int. 
719. 

Aug. 26. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 111, Noes 39. 

Printed Nos. 741, 835. 


JULY 19 

No. 698. By COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. 
—Amending section 1 of article 9 by providing 
that the State shall continue its supervision and 
control of the education of children in its free 
common schools and shall exercise such supervi¬ 
sion and control elsewhere than in such schools 
as it now possesses, and no powers in derogation 
thereof shall be conferred upon the local author¬ 
ities of any civil division of the state. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 3. To third reading. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision Com. 
report tabled. 

Aug. 13. Revision Com. report agreed to. 

Aug. 18. Amended. 

Aug. 19. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Recommitted to Com. of the Whole. 

Printed Nos. 749, 801, 818, 820. 


JULY 22 

No. 699. By COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE 
POWERS.—Amending article 3 by adding a new 
section, providing that the Legislature shall not 
pass any bill conferring upon political parties any 
advantage or preferment over other groups of 
voters in the recognition of nominations for pub¬ 
lic office made by them, or regulating the rules 
of procedure, the election of party committeemen 
and the making of nominations for public office 
by political parties or other groups of voters, ex¬ 
cept to provide for a method for placing such 
nominations on the official ballot, if any, pub¬ 
licity of receipts and expenditures and penalties 
against fraud and corruption within such parties 
or groups. 

To Com. of the Whole., 

Printed No. 752. 


No. 700. By COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE 
POWERS.—Amending article 3 by adding a new 
section, prohibiting the Legislature from passing 
any bill amending the charter of any city of the 
State except upon written petition of the mayor 
and the common council or similar authorities, 
and upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the 
members of each house of the Legislature repre¬ 
senting said city in whole or in part, or amending 
the charter of any village of the State, except 
upon the written petition of the president and 
trustees thereof and the affirmative vote of the 
member or members of each house of the Legisla¬ 
ture representing said village. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 2. Recommitted to Legislative Powers 
Com. 

Printed No. 753. 

No. 701. By COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE 
POWERS.—Amending article 3 by adding a new 
section, prohibiting the Legislature from passing 
any bill granting hereafter to any class of indi¬ 
viduals any privilege or immunity not granted 
equally to all members of the State; providing 
for or authorizing the expenditure of any public 
money to be paid to any person except in pur¬ 
suance of a judgment or for property, or services 
rendered upon employment by the State or a civil 
division thereof or in recognition of such services; 
establishing a wage for service to be paid to any 
employee by a private employer. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

July 30. Made Special Order for Aug. 11. 

Aug. 6. Amended. 

Aug. 12. Made special order for Aug. 16. 

Aug. 13. Amended. Motion to submit bill, 
if adopted, to electors in 1917, tabled. 

Aug. 16. Com. of the Whole reported recom¬ 
mending that enacting clause be struck out. 
Action on report put over to Aug. 17. 

Aug. 17. Com. of the Whole report adopted. 
(Bill killed.) 

Printed Nos. 754, 786, 808. 

No. 702. By COMMITTEE ON GOVERNOR 
AND OTHER STATE OFFICERS.—Amending 
sections 1 and 4, of article 4, by increasing the 
salary of the Governor from $10',000 to $20,000 a 
year, the increa.se to take effect January 1, 1917. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. Amended. To 
third reading. 

Sept. 3. Amended (twice). 

Sept. 4. Passed. Ayes 134, Noes 5. 

Printed Nos. 755, 858, 866, 868. 

No. 703. By COMMITTEE ON SUFFRAGE.— 
Amending section 3, article 14, by renumbering 
such section as section 4 and providing that if, 
at the general election of 1915, a majority of the 
electors voting thereon shall approve and ratify 
the amendment to section 1, article 2 of the Con¬ 
stitution now in force, heretofore proposed by the 
Legislature (Woman Suffrage Amendment), sec¬ 
tion 1 of article 2 of this Constitution shall be 
deemed thereby amended so as to embody therein 
the new matter contained in such proposed amend¬ 
ment so approved. 

Read once and tabled. 

July 26. Referred to Future Amendments Com. 

Printed No. f —). 

(Note: This bill havincr received only one 

reading has not been printed.) 









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JULY 24 

Wo. 704. BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. 
— Adding a new section to article 9 providing 
that every city shall have a board of education 
which shall be a body politic and corporate and 
shall, subject to general laws, determine the 
amount and direct and control the expenditure of 
all funds to be used for public education within 
its jurisdiction. Such funds as are raised by local 
taxation shall be raised in the same manner as 
the general city taxes but shall be levied and the 
amounts extended on the roll as a separate school 
tax. 


Mr. Wagner 5 Int. 199 by Mr. Blauvelt; Int. 340 
by Mr. A. E. Smith; Int. 362 by Mr. Austin; Int. 
437 by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 469 by Mr. R. B. 
Smith; Int. 470 by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 477 by 
Mr. Lincoln; Int. 478 by Mr. Sanders; Int. 479 by 
Mr. Westwood; Int. 509 by Mr. Austin; Int. 520 
by Mr. Lincoln; Int. 521 by Mr. Lincoln; Int. 577 
by Mr. Cullinan; Int. 629 by Mr. Parsons; Int. 
646 by Mr. Van Ness; Int. 649 by Mr. E. N. 
Smith; Int. 692 by Finance Com.) 


Read twice, ordered printed and tabled. 

July 26. Referred to Com. of the Whole. 

Printed No. 757. 

Wo. 705. BY FINANCE COMMITTEE.— 
Amending sections 2, 4, 5, 11 and 12 of article 7, 
relative to state debts. It provides that the state 
may contract debts in anticipation of taxes and 
revenues for the purposes, and within the amounts, 
of appropriations theretofore made, to be paid 
within one year from the date of bonds or other 
obligations issued therefor. Except as specined in 
sections 2 and 3, no debt shall be contracted by 
the state after November 2, 1915, unless 

it is authorized by law for some single 
work or object. On the final passage of 
such a bill in either house of the Legislature the 
question shall be “ Shall this bill pass and ought 
the same to receive the sanction of the people ? ” 
The law shall not take effect until it has been 
submitted to and approved by the people at a 
general election. It provides that state debts 
hereafter contracted except emergency debts shall 
be based on serial bonds payable in equal annual 
instalments, the first to be due in not more than 
one year and the last in not more than fifty years. 
No such debt shall be contracted for a period 
longer than the probable life of the improvement. 
Existing sinking funds are continued but the 
Legislature may by general laws provide a means 
whereby outstanding sinking fund bonds may be 
oxchanged at par for cancellation for serial bonds 
authorized under section 4, except that the debt 
as thus refunded shall finally mature not later, 
and at no greater comparative cost to the state 
than the original debt, the determination of^the 
legislature as to such comparative cost to be 
conclusive. When the amount in a sinking fund 
equals the amount of the debt for which it was 
created no further contribution shall be made to 
the fund. The Comptroller is to make annual 
appraisals of all the sinking fund securities held 
for investment, at their fair market value not 
exceeding par. Highway improvement debts shall 
hereafter be created only on the basis of serial 
bonds as provided in section 4. 

Read twice, ordered printed and tabled. 

July 26. Referred to Cora, of the Whole. 

July 29. Motion to make special order for Aug. 

' 5 referred to Rules Com. 

July 30. Made Special Order for Aug. 5. 

Aug. 3. Amended. 

Aug. 5. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Aves 142, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 758, 777, 784. 

(Note: This bill takes the place of Int. 6 by 
Mr. Parsons; Int. 99 by Mr. Wagner; Int. 100 by • 


JULY 28 

Wo. 706. BY PUBLIC UTILITIES COM.— 
Adding a new section to article 5, providing 
that “ There shall be two public s.ervice com¬ 
missions. Commissioners shall be appointed 
by the Governor by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, The Governor 
may remove any commissioner for cause after 
service upon him of a written statement of the 
alleged cause and an opportunity to be heard 
thereon. Until otherwise provided by law, the 
existing commissioners are continued with the 
iurisditcion and powers at present vested in 
them.” 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 14. 

Aug. 18. Recommitted to Public Utilities 
Com. with instructions to report back to 
Convention Aug. 20. 

Aug. 20. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. Made Special Order following Int. 
713. 

Aug. 25. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Amended. 

Sept. 3. Recommitted to Public Utilities Com. 
(Similar provisions in Int. 716 -svliich 
Passed.) 

Printed Nos. 767, 824, 832, 856. 

(Introduced as a substitute for Int, 98 by Mr. 
Foley; Int. 161 by Mr. Schurman; Int. 249 by 
Mr. Olcott; Int. 482 by Mr. Coles; Int. 639 by 
Mr. Hinman; Int. 688 by Mr. L«,Tjdreth.) 


JULY 29 

No. 707. BY COMMITTEE ON INDIAN RE¬ 
LATIONS.— Amending section 15, article 1, 
by abolishing the peacemakers’ courts of the 
Tonawanda nation, and peacemakers’ courts and 
surrogates’ courts of the Seneca nation and 
all other Indian agencies of the Indian tribes 
and nations in so far as they exercise judicial 
functions, and vesting their jurisdiction in 
the State courts. All actions and proceedings 
now pending shall be transferred to proper 
state courts. Except as otherwise provided by 
treaties of the State and the constitution, treaties 
and laws of the United States, all general laws of 
the State now or hereafter in force shall apply to 
all Indians within the State. 

Referred to Committee of the Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Monday after¬ 
noon, August 9. 

Aug. 9. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision Com. 
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Aug. 17. Revision Com. report taken from 
table and adopted. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 130, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 769, 793, 799. 


JULY 30 

No. 708. BY CONSERVATION COI^IMITTEE. 
— Repealing section 7 of article 7 and inserting 
a new article, providing for a state department of 
conservation with 9 commissioners, one from each 
judicial district, to be appointed by the governor 
for 9 year terms and to serve without compensa¬ 
tion. The commission is to have power to make 
fish and game regulations, subject to veto within 
thirty days by the governor, which shall have the 
force of law unless and until the legislature 
modifies them. The present forest preserve lands 
owned by the state are to be forever kept as wild 
forest lands but the commissioners may construct 
fire trails and may remove dead timber for pur¬ 
poses of reforestation and fire protection only but 
not for sale. The Legislature may provide for the 
use of not exceeding 3 per cent, of such lands for 
reservoirs for municipal water supply, for the 
canals and to regulate the flow of streams, such 
reservoirs to be owned and controlled by the state, 
and the cost to be apportioned upon the munic¬ 
ipalities and property benefited. The Legislature 
may authorize New York City to use certain lands 
in Ulster and Greene counties for its municipal 
water supply. The department must appoint a 
superintendent. The legislature shall annually 
make provision for the purchase of real property 
within the Adirondack and Catskill parks as 
defined by law, the reforestation of lands, and 
the making of boundary and valuation surveys. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Made special order for Friday August 6. 

Aug. 5. Amended. 

Aug. 6. Amended. Made Special Order for 
Monday, August 9. 

Aug. 9. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 19. Motion to amend, tabled. 

Aug. 20. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 121, Noes 11 . 

Printed Nos. 773, 785, 787, 789, 825, 847, 
852. 


AUGUST 4 

No. .709. By FINANCE COM^TTEE.— 
Amending section 21 of article 3, and inserting 
a new article providing for a state budget to 
be submitted to the Legislature by the Gov¬ 
ernor on or before February 1st, containing a 
complete plan of proposed expenditures and es¬ 
timated revenues and to be accompanied by a bill 
or bills for all proposed appropriations and re- 
appropriations clearly itemized. It must show 
the estimated revenues for the ensuing year 
together with the measures of taxation, if any, 
which the Governor may propose for the increase 
of revenues and must be accompanied by a state¬ 
ment of the financial condition of the State. The 
Governor, the Comptroller and the departments 
heads may appear before either house of the 
Legislature to answer inquiries relative to the 
budget. Such an appropriation bill when passed 
by the Legislature shall become a law immedi¬ 
ately without further action by the Governor, 


except that appropriations for the Legislature 
and Judiciary shall be subject to the Governor’s 
approval, as provided in section 9, of article 4. 
Department heads are to submit their estimates 
to the Governor by November 15th except the 
Legislature and Judiciary whose estimates must 
be submitted to him before January 15th. The 
Governor after public hearing may revise such 
estimates except those • for the Legislature and 
Judiciary. No other appropriation bills may bo 
considered by the Legislature until the Governor’s 
bills have been finally acted on, nor shall further 
appropriations be then made except by separate 
bills each for a single work or object, such bills 
to be subject to the Governor’s approval. The 
life of every appropriation is to end 3 months 
after the close of the fiscal year next succeeding 
that in which the appropriation is made and the 
fiscal year of the State is made to end on June 
30th. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Monday even¬ 
ing, August 9, and on Tuesday, August 10^ 

Aug. 11. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 16. Amended. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes 137, Noes 4. 

Printed Nos. 778, 802, 809. 

(To take the place of: Int. 13 by Mr. C. H. 
Young; Int. 19 by Mr. Aiken; Int. 158 by Mr. 
E. N. Smith; Int. 221 by Mr. Pelletreau; Int. 
315 by Mr. Barnes; Int. 341 by Mr. A. E. Smith; 
Int. 416 by Mr. Meigs; Int. 432 by Mr. Meigs; 
Int. 458 by Mr. Green; Int. No. 498 by Mr. J. G. 
Saxe; Int. 540 by Mr. J. G. Saxe; Int. 630 by Mr. 
Parsons.) 

No. 710. By CANALS COM]VnTTEE.— 
Amending section 8 of article 7 by prohibiting the 
Legislature from selling, leasing or disposing of 
canal terminals heretofore or hereafter con¬ 
structed or creating any easement in or incum¬ 
brance on the canals or canal terminals. The 
prohibition against the sale, lease or disposition 
of canals is stated to apply to those now known 
as the Erie, the Oswego, the Champlain, the 
Cayuga and Seneca, and the Black River canals 
until the Barge Canal improvement shall have 
been completed when the prohibition is to apply 
to said terminals, the Black River canal, the 
said improved canals, the portions of existing 
canals heretofore reserved for canal purposes by 
statute, the existing inland Erie canal from Ton- 
awanda Creek, Black Rock Harbor and canal slips 
1 and 2 in Buffalo. The State’s title to property 
heretofore or hereafter appropriated for canal 
purposes is to be deemed to be held by the State 
in fee unless expressly taken for temporary pur¬ 
poses. The Legislature is authorized by general 
laws to provide for the leasing of surplus waters 
of the canals or canal feeders under conditions 
which will not interfere with or endanger naviga¬ 
tion or the use of the canals. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 

886 . 

Aug. 25. Amended. To third reading. (These 
amendments together with those of Aug. 27 
are contained in Printed No. 839.)' 

Aug. 27. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Laid over to Sept. 2. 

'Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 127, Noes 10'. 

jPrinted Nos. 779, 839, 845. 







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AUGUST 5 

No. 711. By SUFFRAGE . COMMITTEE.— 
Amending section 4, of article 2 by providing for 
annual registration of electors to be completed 
15 days before each general election. Laws may 
be made providing for special registration on per¬ 
sonal application not more than five months prior 
to election, of electors whose regular vocation or 
occupation require their absence from the county 
during each of the regular days of registration. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Tuesday, Au¬ 
gust 10. 

Aug. 11. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 17. Motion to amend tabled. Ordered 
reprinted with proposed amendments. 

Aug. 30. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 109. Noes 32. 

Printed Nos. 780, 804, 814, 842, 844. 

No. 712. By CITIES COMMITTEE,—Amend¬ 
ing article 12 generally by providing for home 
rule for cities. Every city is to have exclusive 
power to manage, regulate and control its own 
property, affairs and municipal government sub¬ 
ject to the Constitution and general laws of the 
State or laws applying to all cities of the State 
without classification or distinction and laws 
applying to a county not wholly within a city 
establishing or affecting the relation between such 
county and a city. This power is to include among 
others (a) the power to organize,and manage the 
departments, bureaus or divisions of the city 
government and to regulate the number, powers, 
duties, terms, compensation and mode of selec¬ 
tion of all city officers and employees including all 
police and health officers and employees and non¬ 
judicial officers and employees attached to courts 
not of record; and to regulate the compensation 
of employees of counties situated wholly within 
a city with certain exceptions; (b) the power to 
amend its charter or any local or special law 
relating to its property or affairs. In 1917 and 
every eighth year thereafter unless its charter af¬ 
ter one revision shall otherwise provide the ques¬ 
tion of revising the charter is to be submitted to 
the electors in each city. The revision, if deter¬ 
mined upon, is to be done by seven commissioners, 
or in New York City by sixteen commissioners who 
may be elected at the time the question is sub¬ 
mitted. Such revision shall be submitted to the 
electors and if approved by the electors is to be 
presented to the Legislature the first week of the 
following January and unless disapproved by the 
Legislature prior to July 1 thereafter it is to be 
law. The legislative body of a city may enact 
amendments to the charter or to any special or 
local laws affecting the city subject to the ap¬ 
proval of the Mayor, and the Board of Estimate, 
if any, and subject in certain cases to the veto 
power of the Legislature. Laws affecting cities 
in relation to water supply, sewerage and public 
improvements, involving the use of territory 
outside the boundaries of cities, and in relation to 
the government of cities in matters of State con¬ 
cern and applying to less than all the cities of 
the State without classification or distinction 
are declared to be special city laws. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Thursday, Au¬ 
gust 12. 


Aug. 12. Made special order for Aug. 13 and 14. 
Aug 16. Recommitted to Cities Com. 

Aug. 19. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole. 

Aug. 20. Made special order following Int. 710. 
Aug. 24. Amended. To third reading. (This 
amendment with amendment of Aug. 25 
incorporated in Printed No. 830.) 

Aug. 25. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 120, Noes 17. 

Printed Nos. 781, 823, 830, 851. 

(Note: This takes the place of: Int. 68 by 
Mr. Wagner; Int. 187 by Mr. Sanders; Int. 254 
by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 280 by Mr. J. S. O’Brian; 
Int. 313 by Mr. Low; Int. 331 by Mr. Franchot; 
Int. 374 by Mr. Mann; Int. 511 by Mr. E. N. 
Smith; Int. 553 by Mr. Eisner; Int. 613 by Mr. 
Weed; Int. 650 by Mr. Cobb; Int. 655 by Mr. 
Green; Int. 662 by Mr. Franchot; Int. 676 by 
Mr. Berri; Int. 689 by Mr. Fobes.) 


AUGUST 9 

No. 713. By CITIES COMMITTEE.—Amend¬ 
ing section 10, making it sections 10 and 11, 
adding a new section 12, and renumbering pres¬ 
ent sections 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, of article 8, by 
providing that “ The Legislature shall provide 
for the method and limitations under which debts 
may be contracted by the cities, counties, tonms, 
villages and other civil divisions of the State to 
the end that such debts shall be payable in an¬ 
nual instalments the last of which shall fall due 
and be paid within fifty years after such debt 
shall have been contracted and that no such debt 
shall be contracted for a period longer than the 
probable life of the. work or object for which 
the debt is to be contracted.” It also extends to 
all first-class cities the present provision appli¬ 
cable to New York city, that debts incurred after 
January 1, 1904, for water supply purposes shall 
be exempted from the city debt limit. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 16. Amended. 

Aug. 20. Made Special Order following Int. 
712. 

Aug. 25. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Amendments offered. Consideration 
postponed to Sept. 2. 

Sept. 2. Amendments taken from table and 
adopted. Passed. Aves 142, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 788, 810, 829, 862. 

(Note: This takes the place of Int. 411, by 
Mr. Wiggins; Int. 455, by Mr. Baldwin; and Int. 
665, by Mr. Sanders.) 

No. 714. By INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS COM¬ 
MITTEE.— Amending sections 18 and 19 of arti¬ 
cle 1, by including occupational diseases among 
the subjects of compensation to workmen. It 
authorizes the legislature to enact laws “ for the 
protection of the lives, health, or safety of em¬ 
ployees; or for the payment, either by employers 
or by employers and employees or othernuse, 
either directly or through a State or other system 
of insurance or otherwise, of compensation for 
injuries to or occupational diseases of employees 
or for death of employees resulting from sucdi 
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a cause thereof except where the injury is oc¬ 
casioned by the wilful intention of the injured 
employee to bring about the injury or death 
himself or of another, or where the injury results 
solely from the intoxication of the injured em¬ 
ployee while on duty; or for the adjustment, de¬ 
termination and settlement, with or without 
trial by jury, of issues which may arise under 
such legislation; or providing that the right to 
such compensation, and the remedy therefor shall 
be exclusive of all other rights and remedies for 
such injuries or diseases or death. But all 
moneys paid by an employer by reason of the 
enactment of any of the laws herein authorized 
shall be deemed a part of the cost of operating 
the business of the employer.” 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 407. 

Sept. 2. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 3. Passed. Ayes 125, Xoes 17. 

Printed Nos. 792, 865. 

(Note: This to take the place of Int. 23, by 
Mr. Aiken; Int. 376, by Mr. Foley; and Int. 554, 
by Mr. Eisner.) 


AUGUST 11 

No. 715. By FUTURE AMENDMENTS COM¬ 
MITTEE.— Amending sections 1, 2 and 3, re¬ 
numbering section 3 to be section 4 and adding 
new section 3 to article 14 by providing that 
when a proposed constitutional amendment is. 
submitted to the electors a majority of those 
voting on the proposition shall be sufficient to 
ratify the amendment, It also provides that the 
validity of an election upon any proposed amend¬ 
ment or upon the question of calling a constitu¬ 
tional convention may be contested by any elector 
in an equity action brought against the secretary 
of state in the supreme court within three 
months after such election. The question of hold¬ 
ing a constitutional convention must be sub¬ 
mitted at each general election following the lapse 
of 20 years since the last previous submission of 
the question, and at such other general elections 
as the Legislature may provide. The woman suf¬ 
frage amendment to be submitted to the voters 
this Fall is to be deemed a part of section 2 if 
approved by the electors. 

To Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 25. Made Special Order. 

Aug. 27. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. ‘Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 145, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 795, 838, 855. 

No. 716. By GOVERNOR AND OTHER 
STATE OFFICERS COM.— Repealing sections 
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of article 5 and adcTing aJ 
new article 5 reorganizing all the civil^ depart¬ 
ments of the state government. There is to be 
a department of law headed by the attorney- 
general; a department of finance headed by the 
comptroller; a department of accounts headed 
by a commissioner of accounts; a department of 
the treasury headed by the State treasurer; a 
department of taxation headed by the state tax 
commission; a department of state headed by the 
secretarv of state; a department of public works 
headed by the superintendent of public works; a 


department of health headed by the commissioner 
of health; a department of agriculture headed by 
the commissioner of agriculture; a department 
of charities and corrections headed by the secre¬ 
tary of charities and corrections; a department of 
banking headed by the superintendent of banks; a 
department of insurance headed by the superin¬ 
tendent of insuranee; a department of labor 
and industries administered by an industrial com¬ 
mission or commissioner; a department of educa¬ 
tion administered by the state university; a de¬ 
partment of public utilities to consist of two 
public service commissions, the existing com¬ 
missioners continuing with their present ju¬ 
risdiction and powers until the Legislature 
otherwise provides; a department of conserva¬ 
tion under the direction of the conservation 
commission; and a department of civil serv¬ 
ice with three commissioners. The attorney- 
general and the comptroller are to be elected 
at the same time and for the same term as the 
governor. The heads of all other departments, 
except the department of education, are to be 
appointed by the governor. The legislature is to 
provide for the appropriate assignment of all the 
civil, administrative and executive functions of 
the state government to the several departments 
provided for. No new department may be created 
by the legislature. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Aug. 25. Amended. Made Special Order for 
Aug. 30. 

Aug. 26. Vote making bill Special Order for 
Aug. 30 reconsidered. Made Special Order 
for Aug. 27. 

Aug. 30. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Revision Com. reported recommend¬ 
ing amendments. Report tabled. (Bill or¬ 
dered reprinted with proposed amendments 
for information of members.) 

Sept. 1. Revision Com. report taken from 
table. Amendments adopted. 

Sept. 2. Amended. Passed. Ayes 125, Noes 
30. 

Printed Nos. 803, 831, 843, 863. 

(Note: To take the place of: Int. 85, by Mr. 
E. N. Smith; Int. 110, by Mr. Brookes; Int. Ill, 
by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 125, by Mr. C. Nicoll; 
Int. 172, by Mr. Bernstein; Int. 179, by Mr. 
L. M. Martin; Int. 186, by Mr. Lincoln; Int. 
222^ by Mr. Pelletreau; Int. 293, by Mr. Leggett; 
Int. 300, by Mr. Dunlap; Int. 404, by Mr. Lat- 
son; Int. 418, by Mr. Wadsworth; Int. 436, by 
Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 472, by Mr. Deyo; Int. 
498, by Mr. J. G. Saxe; Int. 540, by Mr. J. G. 
Saxe; Int. 552, by Mr. Eisner; Int. 635, by Mr. 
Donnelly; Int. 668, by Mr. Brackett; Int. 694, 
by Mr. J. G. Saxe.) 


AUGUST 12 

No. 717. By COUNTY, TOIVN AND VIL¬ 
LAGE OFFICERS COM.— Amending section 1 
of article 10 by transferring from the governor 
to the appellate division of the supreme court in 
the judicial department in which the county is 
situated the power to remove sheriffs, district 
attorneys, county clerks and registers and pro¬ 
viding that the determination of the court shall 
not be subject to review. It also strikes out the 







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prohibition against sheriffs suceeding themiSelveis 
in office. 

To Cottirnittee of the Whole. 

Sept. 3. Made special order. 

Printed Ko. 805. 

(Note: This takes the place of Int. 57, by 
Mr. Kirby and Int. 435 by Mr. R. B. Smith.) 


AUGUST 13 

Ho. 718. By COMMITTEE ON JtJUlClARW— 
Amending article 6 generally relative to the judi¬ 
ciary. It requires the legislature to enact a brief 
and simple civil practice act and to adopt a sepa¬ 
rate body of civil practice rules and at intervals 
of not less than five years to appoint a commis¬ 
sion to report what changes, if any, should be 
made in such rules ^ increasing tlie permanent 
court of appeals from seven to ten members and 
providing for the calling in of not less than four 
nor more than six supreme court justices in order 
that the court may divide itself into two parts 
until the calendar has -been reduced to 100 cases 
and in any event not later than December 31, 
1917^ limiting the jurisdiction of the court of 
appeals to questions of law onJy except in crim¬ 
inal cases where the judgment is of death, and 
appeals from judgments of the appellate division 
reversing or modifying a judgment and render¬ 
ing a new judgment on new findings of fact made 
by the appellate division upon the record sent 
up on appeal; provision is made for increas¬ 
ing the number of justices Of the appellate di¬ 
vision of the first department from seven to 
not less than ten nor more than twelve and in 
the second department from five to seven. Rro- 
vision is made for two new supreme court jus¬ 
tices in the first judicial district. The number 
of justices assignable to appellate terms, first 
and second departments, is increased from three 
to five. The court of claims is continued, the 
judges to have authority to take testimony in 
any case but a majority of the court to concur 
in any award. The jurisdiction of the court of 
general sessions of New York city is extended 
throughout the greater city, the county courts of 
Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx being abol¬ 
ished and their criminal jurisdiction transferred 
to general Sessions, the judges of such courts 
becoming general sessions judges. The legislature 
may give Bronx county one additional juage. 
The jurisdiction of the city court of New York 
is extended throughout the greater city and the 
limit for which actions for a money recovery may 
be brought in the court is increased to $3,000. 
The judges of the court elected from each county 
are to have in the county the equity jurisdiction 
now exercised by the county court in such county. 
Provision is made for electing two additional city 
court judges from Kings and one each from Bronx, 
Richmond and Queens. Tlie legislature is em¬ 
powered to establish inferior local courts with 
territorial jurisdiction and children’s courts and 
domestic relations courts. Provision is made 
authorizing the enactment of law to provide for 
the Torrens Law system of title registration. 
The office of commissioner of jurors may be 
established in any county by the legislature. 
Jurisdiction of county courts in common-law ac- 
tiOUs is increased from $2,000 to $3,000. The 
jurisdiction of surrogates’ courts is continued. 


The legislature must provide fur the collection 
of judicial statistics, 

Tc Committee of the Whole, 

Aug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 
706, 

Aug. 23. Amended. To third reading, 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 135, Noes 3, 

Printed Nos. S07, 823, 850. 


AUGUST 18 

No, 7191. By COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.— 
Amending section 20 of article 3 by providing 
that no public moneys or property shall be appro¬ 
priated for the construction or improvement of 
any building, bridge, highway, dike, canal, feeder, 
waterway or other Work until plans and estimates 
of the cost of such Work shall have been filed 
with the Secretary of State by the Superintendent 
of Public Works, together with a certificate by 
him as to whether or not in his judgment the 
general interests of the State then require that 
such improvement be made at State expense. This 
provision shall not apply to the contribution of 
the state to the cost of eliminating grade cross¬ 
ings or to items in the budget for the construc¬ 
tion of highways from the proceeds of bonds au¬ 
thorized under section 4 of article 7, 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Aug. 20. Made Special Order following Int. 
706. 

Aug. 25. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Amended, 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 146, Noes 2, 

Printed Nos. 815, 854. 

No. 720, By COMMITTEE ON BILL OF 
RIGHTS.—;Amending sections 6 and 7 of Article 
1, by providing that a person charged with a 
felony punishable by not exceeding 5 years im¬ 
prisonment or with an indictable misdemeanor 
may after examination or commitment by a magis¬ 
trate, waive the right to indictment and jury trial, 
subsequent proceedings being had by information 
before a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or 
a judge thereof ; providing that in any criminal 
case a person shall have a right to at least one ap¬ 
peal; pro\”iding that no person shall be denied the 
equal protection of the laws; and providing that 
when private property is taken for public use, con¬ 
demnation proceedings shall be conducted by the 
supreme court without a jury or, in* New York 
city by one or more supreme court commissioners 
and elsewhere not less than three commission¬ 
ers apiiointed by a court of record. WTiere the 
proceedings are instituted by a civil division of the 
state, the compensation is to be paid before tak¬ 
ing the pronerty except that the supreme court 
may otherwise direct wliere public necessity re¬ 
quires it. The legislature may authorize cities, 
for the establishment of a uniform system of 
streets, to take real property wuthin an abandoned 
street or highway and to sell and lease it. 

To Committee of the MTiole. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Minority report filed. Bill made 
Special Order following Int. 722. 

Sept. 4. Amended. To third reading. Passed 
Ayes 130, Noes 3. 

Th-inted ’Nos. 816, 849, 870. 









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AUGUST 19 

No. 721. By COM^IITTEE ON COUNTY, 
TOWN AND VILLAGE GOVERNMENT.— 
Amending sections 26 and 27 of article 3 and sec¬ 
tion 2 of article 10 by providing that the Legis¬ 
lature may by general laws establish different 
forms of county government from the present gov¬ 
ernment by a board of supervisors, foT counties 
not wholly within a city, such form of govern¬ 
ment to be effective in any county only when ap¬ 
proved by the electors thereof in such manner as 
the Legislature may prescribe. No local or spe¬ 
cial law relating to a county or counties not 
wholly within a city shall be enacted' except 
upon request, by resolution of the govern¬ 
ing body of the county or counties. The 
Legislature may confer upon any county officer or 
any of the powers and duties now exer¬ 
cised by the towns or town officers in any county 
relative to highways, public safety and the care 
of the poor. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Aug. 3L Made Special Order. 

Sept. 1. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 128, Noes 11. 

Printed Nos. 822, 853. 

(To take the place of: Int. 12 by Mr. C. H. 
Young; Int. 115 by Mr. Kirby; Int. 178 by 
Mr. L. M. Martin; Int. 202 by Mr. Barrett; Int. 
288 by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 313 by Mr. Low; 
Int. 314 by Mr. Wiggins; Int. 455 by Mr. Baldwin; 
Int. 462 by Mr. B^rett; Int. 511 by Mr. E. N. 
Smith; Int. 523 by Mr. Coles; Int. 524 by Mr. 
Coles; Int. 553 by Mr. Eisner; Int. 634 by Mr. 
Donnelly; Int, 650 by Mr. Cobb; Int. 655 by 
Mr. Green; Int 678 by Mr. Dunmore.) 


AUGUST 26 

No. 722. By COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE 
ORGANIZATION.—Amending sections 2, 3, 4, 5 
and 8, and repealing section 7 of article 3, and 
transferring the provisions of section 6 of article 
10 to article 3, relative to reapportionment. The 
Senate and Assembly districts are to remain as 
at present until altered by the Legislature. Such 
alteration shall be made at the first regular ses¬ 
sion of the Legislature after the return of the 
State enumeration taken in 1915. Subsequent re¬ 
apportionments are to be made at the regular 
session of the legislature in the year after each 
federal census. The method of determining the 
number of Assemblymen remains as at present. In 
a county entitled "to more than one member the 
board of supervisors or similar body and in cities 
embracing one or more counties having no board 
of supervisot’s the members 'elected from each 
county to the board of aldermen or similar body 
shall divide the counties into Assembly districts. 
The provisions of section 7 relative to the 'qualh 
fications of legislators are stricken out. The 
provision that the legislature may abolish Hamil¬ 
ton ‘county and annex the territory to some, other 
county or counties is stricken out. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Aug. 28. Minority report introduced. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order following Int. 

714. 


Sept. 3. Amended. To third reading. Further 
amended. 

Sept. 4. Passed. Ayes 103, Noes 43. 

Sept. lO. Convention determined that this pro¬ 
posed amendment should be separately sub¬ 
mitted to the electors. 

Printed Nos. 836, 867, 869. 


AUGUST 28 

No. 723. By Mr. A. E. SMITH.—Amending 
section 9 of Article 5 by providing that only 
citizens of the United States shall be eligible to 
take examinations for employment in the civil 
service of the State. 

To Civil Service Com. 

Printed No. 840. ' 


AUGUST 31 

No. 724. By CITIES COMMITTEE.—Adding 
a new section to Article 3, providing that the 
legislature may delegate to municipalities the 
right to create, fix and regulate areas or dis¬ 
tricts for private residences, for the location of 
trades and industries and for the protection or 
improvement of particular localities, and to 
limit and regulate the height, dimensions, kinds 
and uses of buildings, by districts or otherwise. 

Referred to Committee of the Whole. 

Sept. 3. Made Special Order. 

Printed No. 848. 

(Note'—To take the place of Int. 489, by Mr. 
Bayes; Int. 669, by Mr. Bannister; Int. 
670* by, Mr. Bannister, and Int. 671, by 
Mr. Bannister.) 


SEPTEMBER 1 

No. 725. By COMMITTEE ON GOVERNOR 
AND OTHER STATE OFFICERS.-Repealing 
section 5 of Article 5 and adding a new section 
providing that the lieutenant-governor, speaker 
of the Assembly, secretary of state, attorney- 
general, comptroller, treasurer and superin¬ 
tendent of public works shall constitute the 
canal board and be fhe commissioners of the 
land office and the commissioners of the canal 
fund. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Sept. 3. Made Special Order. To third read¬ 
ing. Passed. Ayes 129, Noes 0. 

Printed No. 857. 


SEPTEMBER 9 

Revised Constitution as a Whole 
By REVISION COMMITTEE.—Final draft of 
the Constitution as a whole as revised by Re¬ 
vision Committee to embody the changes adopted 
by the Convention. 

Sept. 10. Adopted. To be submitted as a 
whole except the tax article (Int. 679), 
and the reapportionment article (Int. 722), 
which are each to be separately submitted. 

Printed as Document No. 52. 


Convention adjourned sine die September 10th. 










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INDIVIDUAL RECORD OF DELEGATES 


Showing introluctor/ number, short title, present position of bill and latest print number 
(For action in detail see introductory number record) 


COUNTIES REPRESENTED AND COMMITTE <: ASSIGNMENTS INDICATED 


Int. No. Mr. Adams. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Prisons, Corporations.) 

62 Kings county court, merged in sup. ct. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 62. 

281 Civil service employees, rights, organiz’ns. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 284. 

400 Judicial officers, local, abol. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 412. 

443 Domestic relations, courts, 1st cl. cities. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 455. 

485 Judicial appointment and control, bd. of. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 49./. 

Mr. Ahearn. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Organization, Legislative Powers.) ' 
213 Const’l amendment, submission to voters. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 214. 

538 t/uvenile delinquents, laws, regul. 

Prisons Com. Pr. 553. 


Mr. Aiken. 

(Republican — Cayuga, Cortland and Seneca.) 
(Legislative Organization, Civil Service.) 

17 Jury verdict, three-fourths. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 17. 

18 Death, actions for, damages, limitation. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 18. 

19 State estimate board, creating, budget. 

Finance Com. Pr. 19. 

20 Judges, court of appeals, supt. ct., nominat’g. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 20. 

21 Court of criminal appears, establish. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 21. 

22 Court practice, rules of, adoption. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 22. 

23 Workmen’s Compensation, laws for. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 23. 


Mr. F. C. Allen. 

(Republican — Cayuga, Cortland and Seneca.) 
(Charities, .Privileges and Elcctiona.) 


Mr. V. M. Allen. 

(Republican — Rensselaer.) 
(Taxation, Cities.) 


Int. No. Ml. Angell. 

(Republican — Clinton, Essex and Warren.) 
(Governor and Other State Officers, Conservation.) 

349 Court of Claims, merge in supreme court. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 353. 

350 Verdict, civil cases, three-fourths jury. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 354. 

356 Highway bonds, proceeds, apportion. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 360. 

381 Inferior local courts, juris., regul. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 388. 

569 Conservation Advisory Board, estab. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 584. 

570 Forests, camp sites, water storage, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 585. 

571 Conservation Com., constit’l body. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 586. 

« 

Mr. Austin. 

(Republican — Greene and Ulster.) 

(Finance, Conservation.) 

33 Const, amendm’ts, legislature passing. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 33. 

34 Agricultural lands, leases, reserved rent 

Bill killed. Pr. 34. 

40 Com. sch., literature funds, preserv’g capital. 
Finance Com. Pr. 40. 

78 Bills, legis., pass, under emergency mesii«»ge. 

Passed.' Pr. -746 

79 Appropriations, state, use of, time, revjrr 

ing, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 79. 

128 Forest pres, lands, sale, cutting of timber. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 247. 

129 Conservation com’r, governor to appoint. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 129. 

239 Grand jury system, regulation by legis. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 241. 

362 State debts, bonds, anticipation taxes. 

Finance Com. Pr. 367. 

363 Canal fund commissioners, canal board. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 760. 

364 Sup. Pub. Works, canal employees, etc. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 369. 

509 State debts, creating, payment, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 714. 

510 Canal lands, sale, etc., proceeds. 

Canals Com. Pr. 522. 

. Mr. Baldwin. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Cities, Governor and Other State Officers, Con¬ 
servation.) 

120 Direct state tax bills, legislature passing. 
Taxation Com. Pr. 120. 












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Int. No. 

121 Fish and game commission, creating. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 121. 
170 N. Y. City, General Sessions Court, cont. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 170. 

197 Jury trials, waiving, civil cases. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 198. 

248 Water, conserv’n, develop., prop. for. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 406. 

312 Water supply, state lands for. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 316. 

375 Conservation Com., constitutional body, etc. 
Conservation Com. Pr. 382. 

449 N. Y. City, to be single county. 

County, Town & Village Gov’t. Pr. 461. 

450 Tax rate, same on buildings and land. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 462. 

451 Mandatory pay-roll legislation prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 463. 

452 Supreme Court commissioners, providing for. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 464. 

453 Condemnation, proceedgs. regul. 

Bills of Rights Com. Pr. 465. 

454 Judicial statistics, publishing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 466. 

455 Securities, municipal, Com. on 

Cities Com. Pr. 467. 

622 Civil Code bill, judges vetoing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 638. 


Mr. Bannister. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Finance. Conservation.) 

295 Waters, state, pollution. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 299. 

401 Aerial forces, state militia. 

Military Affairs Com. Pr. 413. 

526 Inheritance taxes, use for pub. improv. only. 
Finance Com. Pr. 541. 

669 Buildings, height, etc., regulating. 

Cities Com. Pr. 686. 

670 Buildings, zones, etc., regulating. 

Cities Com. Pr. 687. 

671 Property, dangerous to health, taking. 

Cities Com. Pr. 688. 


Mr. Barnes. 

(Republican — Albany.) 
(Legislative Powers (Ch.), Rules.) 

315 Legislature, powers of, restricting. 

Legislative Powers (I)om. Pr. 748. 

412 Constitutional Convention, referendum on. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 424. 

567 Legislature, private, local, bills. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 582. 

640 Public utilities service, duplicating. 
Public Utilities Com. Pr. 656. 


Mr. Barrett. 

(Republican — Westchester.) 

(Taxation; County, Town, Village Officers.) 

72 Courts, inferior, estab. by legislature. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 72. 

201 Taxes, dept, of assess, and collec. counties, 
'taxation Com, Pr. 202. 


Int. No. 

202 Counties, optional gov., plans, gen’l laws. 

County, Town & Vil. (jov. (Jom. Pr. 203. 
462 County gov’t, optional plans. 

County, Town & Vil. Gov’t. Com. Pr. 726. 


Mr. Baumes. 

(Republican — Orange and Sullivan.) 
(Suffrage, Education.) 


Mr. Bayes. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Governor and Other State Officers, Revision.) 
45 Jury, all cases, to be composed of 6. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 45. 

118 Capital punishment, abolishing. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 118. 

190 Legislature, adjrnmnt date, daily sessions. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 191. 

191 Legislature, adjournment either house, limit. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 192. 

192 Legislative, introduction of bills, limit. 

Legislative Powers Com, Pr. 193. 

337 Corp’ns, stockholders, liability for labor. 
Corporations Com. Pr. 341. 

445 Court of Appeals, enlarging, App. Div. abol. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 457. 

446 Court of Appeals, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 458. 

489 Building, height, zones, cities. 

Cities Com. Pr. 501. 

490 Schools, vaccination not compulsory. 

Education Com. Pr. 502. 

491 Supreme ct., judges, terms. 

Judiciary (3om. Pr. 503. 

529 Military service, scruples against. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 544. 


Mr. Beach. 

(Republican — Oneida.) 

(Banking and Insurance, Printing, Finance.) 


Mr. Bell. 

(Republican — New York.) 
(Contingent Expenses, Prisons, Charities.) 
171 Voters must read and write English. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 171. 

627 Pardon, State Board of, creating. 
Prisons Com. Pr. 643. 


Mr. Bernstein. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Organization, County, Town, Village 
Officers.) 

148 Appellate Division, justices, designairno;- 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 148. 

172 State officers, appointment by Gov.. 

Gov. ■ and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 

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335 Patdon, board of, creating. 

Prisons Oom. Pr. 237. 

236 Election officers, competitive exam. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 238. 

.498 Senate dists., reapportionment. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 302. 
299 Legislature, composed of Senate only. 
Keported adversely. Pr. 303. 


Mr. Berri. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Printing (Ch.), Cities, Industrial Interests.) 

246 State officers, appointment, election. . 

Gov, and Other State Officers €om. Pr. 240, 
676 Mandatory laws, requir’g expen. city money. 
Cities Com. Pr. 693. 


Mr. Betts. 

(Republican — Ontario, Wayne and Yates.) 
(Revision, Printing, County, Town, Village 
Government.) 

24 Death penalty, abolishing. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 24. 

259 Senate dists., reapportion by legis. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 262. 
304 Bills, legislative, signing, time of. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 308. 
389 Senate, districts, reapportioning, etc. 

Legislative Oi-ganization Com. Pr, 396. 

Mr. Blauvelt. 

(Democrat — Richmond and Rockland.) 
(Governor and Other State Officers, Public Utili¬ 
ties, Conservation.) 

31 Highway bonds, proceeds, excess, apportion. 
Passed, Pr. 837. 

199 Sinking funds, surplus any year, use of. 

Finance Com. Pr. 200. 

685 Condemnation by municipal corp’ns. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 705. 


Mr. Bockes. 

(Republican — Chenango, Madison and Otsego.) 
(Legislative Powers,'^vernor and Other State 
Officers.) 

107 Inferior courts, territorial jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 107. 

108 Municipalities, gifts of stock or bonds to. 

County, Town, Village Govt. Com. Pr. 108. 

109 Agric. com’r, elect.; state officers, terms. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 109. 

110 State officers, 2 -year term, repeal section. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 110. 


Mr. Brackett. 

(Republican — At Large.) 
(Legislative Organisation (Ch.), Legislative 
Powers, Judiciary.) 

16 Claims against atate, juria. aup. court. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 15. 


Int. No. 

16 Grand jury minutes, inspection by defendant. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 16, 

I 80 Insurance supt., to be elected by people. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 80. 
81 Public works supt., to be elected by people. 

; Gov. and Other State Officers Com, Pr. 81. 

i 82 Pardon and parole, state board of, creating. 
I Gov. and Other ‘State Officers Com. Pr. 82. 

1 83 Prisons, state supt. of, elected by people. 

! . ('ov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 83. 

643 Gambling, all kinds, prohib. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 659. 

: 644 Gambling, all kinds, express prohib, against. 

; Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 660. 

668 Health “dept., direct state tax for, 

; Gov. and Other State 'Officers Com. Pr. 

684. 


Mr. Brennen 
(Republican — Kings.) 

(Corporations (Ch,), Privileges and Elections, 
Public Utilities.) 

43 Jury, civil cases, 6 instead of 12. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 43. 

44 Commissioner of jurors, appointment. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 44. 

169 Condemnation, judge of, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 169. 

296 Dower, inchoate right of, abol. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 300. 

309 Judges, automatic re-nomination. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 313. 

310 Jury duty, exemptions, ahol., etc 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 314. 

357 Arrests, civil action, prohib. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 361. 

536 Cities, magistrates, local cts., etc. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 551. 


Mr. Bunce. 

(Republican — Fulton and Hamilton, Herkimer 
and Lewis.) 

(Bill of Rights, Privileges and Elections, Corpora¬ 
tions. ) 

155 Officers, impeachment of, powers pend, trial.. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 155. 

175 Justices of peace, number of, limiting. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 175. 

208 Inferior local court’s jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 209. 

219 Forest preserve, storage reservoirs, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 220. 

220 Conservation, Comm’r of, appoint, etc. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr- 

221 . 

317 Hamilton Co., abol.; assemblymen, number^ 
Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 321. 
348 Water, storage, power, lands for, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 352. 

365 Justices of peace, number, regul. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 370. , 









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Ini. No. Mr. Burkan. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Organization, Privileges and Elec¬ 
tions.) 

149 City court, N. Y. city, merg in Sup. Ct. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 149. 

159 Officials, public, to have no priv. business. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 
150. 

151 County judges, comp., changing dur. term. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 151. 

Mr. Buxbaum. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Legislative Organization, County, To^vn, Village 
Officers.} 

58 Legislative powers,, delegation of, restriction.. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 5S. 

59 Imprisonment in civil actions, exceptions. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 59. 

63 Bribery, corruption, fraud, laws, etc. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 63. 

224 Judges, qualifications, not to practice law. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 226. 

335 N. Y. City, assembly dists., fixing. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 339. 

615 Legislature, meeting after 30-day period. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 631. 

616 Legislature, session after 30-day period, 

calling. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 632. 

Mr. Byrne. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Militia, Privileges and Elections.) 


Mr. Clearwater. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Prisons (Ch.), Education, Prisons, Judiciary.) 
153 Law, admission to practice, oath. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 153. 

2|t0 Supreme court justices, salary. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 242. 

664 Children’s "cts., domestic rel. cts. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 579. 

665 State Probation Com., constit’l body. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 580. 


Mr. Clinton. 
(Republican — Erie.) 
(Canals (Ch.), Conservation.) 
619 Canals, lease, sale, prohibition of. 
Canals Com. Pr. 531. 


Mr. Cobb. 

(Republican — Onondaga.) 
(Judiciary, Privileges and Elections.) 

159 Canal lands, structures, aband, sale cf. 

Canals Com. Pr. 222. 

160 Appeals to court^ of appeals, taking. 

Judiciary Com*. Pr. 160. 

256 Inferior local courts, juris., limit. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 259. 

257 Constit’l amendments, ratific’n by voters. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 260. 


Int. No. 

383 Voters, qualifications, residence. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 390. 

384 Judicial officers, removal, regul. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 391. 

466 Court of claims, constit’l body. 

• Judiciary Com. Pr. 478. 

467 Court of claims, judges, removal. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 479. 

468 Judges, claims ct., inferior cts., terms, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 480. 

650 Cities, incorporated villages, gen’l laws for. 

Cities Com. Pr. 698. 

651 Rural voters, personal registration. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 667, 

652 Voters, challenge, oaths, laws for. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 668. 

653 Legislators, as attorneys before State depts. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 669. 


Mr. Coles. 

(RepublicanNassau and Suffolk.) 

(Civil Service, County, Town, Village Govern¬ 
ment.) 

60 Titles, real property, registering. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 60. 

260 Justices of peace, qualifications, legis. fix. 
Judiciary Cora. Pr, 263. 

333 Grand jury, indictment, right to. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 337, 

334 Justices of peace, fees. 

Judiciary Com. Pr, 338. 

399 Counties, annexing territory, regul. 

Legislative Organization Com, Pr, 4H, 
440 Military service, optional, etc. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 452. 

482 Public Ser. Com., constit’l bodies. 

Pub. Utilities Com. Pr, 494. 

523 Supervisors, bds. of. 

County, Town & Vil. Gov’t. Com. Pr. 638. 

524 Counties, optional plans of gov’t. 

County, Town A Vil. Gov’t Com. Pr. 639. 

525 Printing, legislature. No. of copies. 

Education Com. Pr. 640. 


Mr. Cullinan. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Suffrage (Ch.K Governor and Other State 
Officers, Canals.) 

170 Pensions, granted by legis., referendum. 
Finance Com. Pr. 176. 

575 Waters, title in state, use, regul. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 817. 

576 Cigarettes, tax upon. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 691, 

577 State debts, laws creating. 

Finance (^om. Pr. 692. 

578 Commerce and Navigation, com’r o\. 

Canals Com. Pr, 593, 

Mr. Curran. 

(Republican Monroe.) 

(Bill of Rights, Industrial Interests.) 

330 Superintendent Public Works, election. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 334. 
391 Jury trials, right to, criminal cas^s. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 398. 






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392 Unemployed, providing work for. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 399. 

393 Workmen’s compen., old age insur., etc. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 400. 

394 Labor, public work, etc., 8-hour day. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 401. 

395 Constitutional Convention delegates,’ elec’n. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 402. 

396 Legislature, members, salary. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 403. 

397 Military forces, labor disputes, etc. 

Military Affairs Com. Pr. 404. 

398 Judges, separate election for. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 405. 

421 Constitutionality of laws. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 433. 

422 Workmen’s compen. laws, enacting. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 434. 

423 Habeas corpus, right to, suspend. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 435. 

661 Capital punishment, abolishing. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 677. 


Mr. Dahm. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Industrial Interests, Printing.) 

372 Voters, N. Y. City, residence. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 379. 

486 Initiative and referendum. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 498. 

598 Conspiracies, acts, individual, in concert. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 613. 

699 Free speech, libel, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 614. 

600 Senators, 1 year term. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 615. 
660 Initiative and referendum, providing for. 
Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 676. 

Mr. Daly. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(County, Town and Village Officers, Prisons.) 


Mr. Dennis. 

(Republican — Saratoga and Washington) 
(Legislative Organization, Militia.) 


Int. No. Mr. Dick. 

(Republican — Monroe.) 
(Civil Service, Finance.) 


Mr. Donnelly. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 

(Governor and Other State Officers, County, Town, 
Village Government.) 

9 Appeals ct. opinions, legis.. Gov., requiring. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 9. 

632 Indirect State taxes, half to locality. 

Finance Com. Pr. 648. 

633 Change of grade damages, payment of. 

‘ Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 649. 

634 County purchasing agents. 

County, Town and Village Govt. Com. 
Pr. 650. 

635 Short ballot provision. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 651. 


Mr. Donovan. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 
(Education, Corporation.) 

237 Civil Service Commission, state regul. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 239. 

271 Elections, compulsory voting. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 274. 

681 Contagious diseases, laws regul. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 701. 

Mr. Dooling. 

(Democrat — New York.) 
(Suffrage, Public Utilities.) 

134 Labor and Industries, Com’r of, electing. 
Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 134. 


Mr. Doughty. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Charities, Corporations.) 

143 Stockholders, insur. Cos. liability. 
Corporations Com. Pr. 143. 

Mr. Dow. 

(Republican — Cattaraugus and Chautauqua..) 
(Conservation (Ch.), Civil Service.) 

370 Forests, waters, regulating. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 375. 

480 Forests and waters com. of 3 members. . 
Conservation Com. Pr. 492. 


Mr. Deyo. 

(Republican — Broome and Delaware.) 
(Civil Sei-vice, Public Utilities.) 

182 Gov., salary, $20,000, introduce bills, etc. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 
182. 

209 Tax, direct, partial veto by Governor. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 210. 

387 Stock Market, margin transactions, prohib. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 813. 

388 Stock, produce, markets, incorporation. 

Corporations Com. Pr. 395. 

472 Short ballot, state officers. 

Gov. k Other Officers Com. Pr. 484. 

522 Judges, removal, regul. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 534.- 


Mr. Drummond. 

(Democrat — New York.) 
(Charities, Prisons.) 


Mr. Dunlap 

(Republican — Montgomery, Schenectady and 
Schoharie.) 

(Conservation, Privileges and Elections.) 

154 Forests, regul., 3 commissioners of, etc. 

Conservation Com. *Pr. 154. 

300 Health Dept., maintenance. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 304. 
413 Hamilton Co., not to be abolished. 

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Int. No. Mr. Dunmore. 

(Republican — Oneida.) 

(Judiciary, Civil Service.) 

62 Const, amendments, submission of. 

Future Amendments Comi Pr. 52. 

53 Civil service, Spanish war veterans. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 53. 

140 Woman suffrage, women vote on question. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 140. 

177 Habeas corpus, detention by extrad. war. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 177. 

252 Justices of peace, dist. courts. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 255. 

253 Inferior local courts, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 256. 

320 Special sess’ns courts, abol. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 324. 

321 Excess condemnation, cities, abol. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 325. 

323 Statutes, sale, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 327. 

324 Laws, taking effect, time of. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 328. 

325 Sheriffs, succeeding themselves. 

Countv, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 329. 

382 Woman suffrage, women’s sentiment upon. 
Suffrage Com. Pr. 389. 

673 Manufacturing Indus., unreasonable regul. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 751. 

574 Unreasonable laws, regul., prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 589. 

678 Electors, absent; summer resorts, etc. 

County, Town and Village Govf. Com. 
Pr. 695. 


Mr. Dykmau. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Judiciary, Contingent Expenses, Governor and 
Other State Officers.) , 


Mr. Eggleston. 

(Republican — Cayuga, Cortland and Seneca.) 
(Suffrage, Industrial Interests.) 


Mr. Eisner. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Suffrage, Civil Service, Charities.) 

101 Motion picture censorship, prohibiting. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 101. 

651 Woman suffrage, providing for. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 566. 

652 Officials, removal by Governor. 

Gov. <fe Other State Officers Com. Pr. 667. 

553 Cities, villages, adopt own charters. 

Cities Com. Pr. 568. 

554 Workmen’s compen., minimum wages, etc. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 569. 

555 Short ballot, state officers. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 570. 
656 Initiative, referendum, providing for. 
Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 571. 

557 Recall, elective officers. 

Gov. k Other State Officers Com. Pr. 572, 

558 Legislative acts, constitutionality. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 573. 


Int. No. Mr. Endres. 

(Democrat — Erie,) 

(County, Town and Village Officers; Indians.) 


Mr. Eppig. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Taxation, County, Town and Village Governm’t.) 


Mr. Fancher. 

(Republican — Broome and Delaware.) 
(Corporations, Public Utilities.) 


Mr. Fobes. 

(Republican — Onondaga.) 

(Banking and Insurance (Ch.), Cities, Contin¬ 
gent Expenses.) 

274 Court of appeals, composition, salaries, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 409. 

689 Cities, laws for, general only. 

Cities Com. Pr. 709. 


Mr. Fogarty. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Canals, Industrial Interests.) 

488 Pressure, steam, water, air, gas, regul. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 772. 

Mr. Foley. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Powers, Cities, Public Utilities.) 

98 Public service com’rs, appointment, terms. 
Public Utilities Com. Pr. 715. 

228 State census, senatorial dists., etc. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 230. 
376 Workmen’s compen., laws. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 383. 

495 Legislative bodies, 1st. cl. cities, dists. 

Cities Com. Pr. 607. 

639 Constitution, amending, by petition. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 554. 

Mr. Ford. 

(Republican — Jefferson and Oswego.) 
(Legislative Organization, County, Town and Vil¬ 
lage Officers.) 

Mr. Franchot. 

(Republican — Niagara and Orleans.) 
(Cities, Industrial Interests, Governor and Other 
State Officers.) 

131 Merchandise, etc., weighing, repeal prohib'n. 
Lost. Pr. 860. 

331 Home rule, cities, village. 

Cities Com. Pr. 335. 

353 Woman suffrage, vote upo« 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 357. 

604 Criminal cases, grand jury, presentment. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 619. 

662 Cities, home rule, optional system. 

Cities Com. Pr. 796. 

663 Woman sufferage amendment, effect of. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 679. 

675 Auditor-General, election by legislature. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 
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Int. No. Mr. Frank. 

(Democrat — Queens.) 

(Suffrage, Corporations.) 

61 Kings county judges, number of. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 61. 

441 Condemnation, just compensation. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 453. 

442 Private prop., taking, injury, compen. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 454. 

483 Condemnation, by sup. ct., 3 judges. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 495. 

484 Public improv., cost, assessing. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 496. 

Mr. Gladding. 

(Republican — Chenango, Madison and Otsego.) 

(Judiciary, Corporations.), 

302 Court of Appeals, merge in supr. ct. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 306. 

Mr. Greeu. 

(Republican — Broome and Delaware.) 

(Cities, Canals.) 

258 Veterans, civil service, pensions. 

Civil Service Com. Pr. 261. 

438 Conservation Dept., to be eonstit’l body. 
Conservation Com. Pr. 450. 

585 Jurors, corner of, each county. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 600. 

586 Cumulative voting, for assemblymen. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 601. 

587 N. Y. City, assembly dists., etc. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 602. 

654 Municipal employees, shifting voting rights. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 670. 

655 Home rule, principle of. 

Cities Com. Pr. 671. 

656 Jury duty, persons subject to. 

Judiciary Com, Pr, 672, 

Mr. Greff. 

(Republican—Allegany, Genesee and Wyoming.) 
(Taxation, County, Town and Village Officers.) 


Mr. Griffin. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 

(Canals, Militia.) 

46 Taxation, uniformity in valuation, requiring. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 46. 

47 Senators, assemblymen, increase in terms. 

Legislative Organiation Com. Pr. 47. 

48 Senators, assemblymen, increase in salary. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr, 48, 

49 Governor, lieutenant-governor, 4'year terms. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 49. 

50 Governor, making salary $15,000. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com, Pr, 50. 

69 Legislative year, begins, length of, bills. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 69. 

70 Penalties, delegation of power to collect. 

Legislative Powers Com, Pr. 70. 

238 Felonies, jury to fix penalty. 

Bill of Rights Com, Pr. 240. 

250 Legislative power, delegation of. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr, 253. 

559 Reapportionment, legislative, state census. 
Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 574. 


Int. No. - Mr. Haffen. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 

(Legislative Organization, County, Town and Vib 
lage Officers,) 

174 Assemblymen, increasing number of. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 174. 
684 Reapportionment, senate and assembly dists. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 704. 
693 Legislators, number, terms, increasing. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 723. 


Mr. Hale. 

(Republican — Franklin and St. Lawrence.) 
(Public Utilities (Ch.), Rules, Governor and 
Other State Officers.) 


Mr. Harawitz. 

(Democrat — Ne\v York.) 

(Banking and Insurance, Prisons.) 

133 Legislators, salary, allowances, etc. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 133. 
494 Criminal cases, appeals, of right. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 506, 


Mr, Heaton. 

(Republican — Rensselaer,) 

(County, Town and Village Government, Future 
Amendments.) 

347 Surrogates courts, powers, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 351. 

429 Taxation, municipal property. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 441. 

430 Highways, maintenance, state debts for. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 442. 


^ Mr, Heyman. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Corporations, Privileges and Elections.) 

263 Civil serv., protection vs. removal, veter’ns. 
Reported adversely. Pr. 266. 


Mr. Hinman. 

(Republican — Albany^, 

(Future Amendments (Ch.), Legislative Powers, 
Finance.) 

637 Charities and correction, State bd., create. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 653. 

638 Legislature, meeting each month, except 

July, August. 

Legislative Organization Com, Pr, 65,4, 

639 Public Service Com., providing for. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 655. 


Mr. Johnson. 

(Republican — Ontario, Wayne and Yates.) 
(County, Town and Village Governm’t, Charities.) 

516 Governor, unpeachment, powers during trial. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 528. 

517 Lieutenant-Governor, impeachment. 

Gov, & Other State Officers Cora, Pr. 529. 

518 Impeachment, impeachment court etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 530. 






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Int. No. Mr. Jones. 

(Republican — Monroe.) 
(Corporations, Industrial Interests.) 

Mr. Kirby. 

(Republican — Niagara and Orleans.) 
(Legislative Organization, Public Utilities.) 

57 Sherilfs, may succeed themselves. 

County, Town & Vill. Officers Com. Pr. 57. 

89 Officials, state, county, no perquisites but 

salary. 

County, Town, Vil. Officers Com. Pr. 89. 

90 State bd. of char., books, pub. records, etc. 

Charities Com. Pr. 90. 

114 Peace justices, as masters of county court. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 114. 

115 County comptroller, creating. 

County, Town, Village Govt. Com. Pr. 115. 
305 Magistrates, judgment by, guilty plea. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 309. 

354 Felony case, witness without state. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 358. 

605 Atty.-General, legal affairs state depts. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 620. 

Mr. Kirk. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Suffrage, Corporations.) 

229 Judges, app. div., ct. appeals, jU'licT dists. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 231. 

230 State senate, aboPing; assembly, election of. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 232. 

Mr. Landreth. 

(Republican — Montgomery, Schenectady and 
Schoharie.) 

(Conservation, Canals.) 

645 Engineering, public works dept., creating. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 661. 

687 Property for water storage, etc., taking. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 707. 

688 Public service commissions, const’l bodies. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 708. 

Mr. Latson. i 

[ Republican — Kings.) 

(Militia (Ch.), Cities.) 

96 Legislators, salaries, $3,000. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 96. 

97 Private prop., taking for pub. use, procedure. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 97. 

117 Arrests, civil cases, prohibiting. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 117. 

402 Court of Claims, abolishing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 414. 

403 Cities, education boards, state system. 

Education Com. Pr. 415. 

404 Engineering and public works, state dept. 

Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

Pr. 416. 

530 Militia, roster of, maintaining. 

Military Affairs Com. Pr. 545. 

531 Adjutant-General, major generals, aides. 

Passed. Pr. 7(11 

532 Militia, constitution of. 

Military Affairs Com. Pr. 763. 

533 Militia, equipment, etc., maintaining. 

Military Affairs Com. Pr. 548. 


Int. No. 

534 Military officers, qualifications. 

Passed. Pr. 794. 

535 Militia, officers, absent without leave. 

Passed. No. 764. 


Mr. Law. 

(Republican — Saratoga and Washington.) 
(Corporations, Education.) 


Mr. Leary. 

(Democrat — New York.) 
(Conservation, Revision.) 
631 License fees, fines, fish, game law. 
Conservation Com. Pr. 647. 


Mr. Leggett. 

(Republican — Allegany, Genesee and Wyoming.) 
(Taxation, Banking and Insurance, Industrial In¬ 
terests. ) 

88 Oath, corruption at election clause abol. 
Killed. Pr. 88. 

163 Justices of peace, inferior local courts, etc. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 163. 

292 Juries, number, Avaiving, reguL, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 295. 

293 Governor, appoint’s, without consent senate. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 296. 

473 Bribery, Constitutional provisions abol. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 485. 

474 Banks, monied corporations, regulating. 

Banking and Insurance Com. Pr. 486. 
596 Voters, qualifications of. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 611. 


Mr. Leitner. 

(Democrat — Richmond and Rockland.) 
(Prisons, Charities, Library and Information.) 
672 Physicians, services pub. institutions. 
Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 689. 

Mr. Lennox. 

(Republican — Chenango, Madison and Otsego.) 
(Finance, Education.) 

Mr. Lincoln. 

(Republican — Erie.) 

(County, Town and Village Government, Finance.) 
39 Impeachment, trial court, powers, composit’n. 

Judiciary CJom. Pr. 39. 

165 Election law, enacting, two-thirds vote. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 165. 

186 State depts., etc., estab. by legis., limiting. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 
186. 

477 Debts, for public improv., payment. 

Finance Com. Pr. 489. 

520 Appropriations, state debts. 

Finance Com., Pr. 532. 

521 Highways, cost of, laws affecting. 

Finance Cora. Pr, 533. 

608 County courts, jurisdiction, regulation. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 685. 

609 Official oaths, false, impeachment for. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 624. 





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Int. No. Mr. Linde. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Legislative Organization, County, Town and Vil¬ 
lage Officers.) 

67 Education, children, to be function of state. 
Education Com. Pr. 67. 


Mr. Lindsay. 

(Republican — Niagara and Orleans.) 
(Indians (Ch.), Legislative Organization, Canals.) 

243 Prison prod’ts, use by state and pub. ins’ns. 

Prisons Com. Pr. 245. 

244 Legislators, doubling terms, bienn. sessions. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 246. 
279 Indians, peacemakers’ cts., surrogates’ cts. 

Indian Relations Com. Pr. 282. 

439 Indians, tribal courts, abolish, etc. 

Indian Relations Com. Pr. 451. 


Mr. Low. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Cities (Ch.), Finance, Industrial Interests.) 
28 Franchises, grant in perpetuity, prohibit. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 637. 

135 Elections, by proportional representation. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 135. 

234 Constit’l amendm’ts, submission by legis. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 236. 

313 Home rule, cities, villages, counties. 

Cities Com. Pr. 535. 

361 Municipal officers, nomination. 

Cities Com. Pr. 366. 

546 Lands under water, regulation. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 561. 

547 Legislative drafting bureau, estab. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 562. 

548 Franchises, indeterminate, prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 563. 

549 Lands under water, grant, regul. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 564. 

625 Political subdivisions, boundaries, changing. 
Cities Com. Pr. 641. 

683 Pension systems, to be on actuarial basis. 
Civil Service Com. Pr. 703. 


Mr. McKean. 

(Republican — Rensselaer.) 
(Corporations, Banking and Insurance, Civil 
Service.) 

207 Forests, com’r of, fallen timber, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 208. 

431 Surrogates, terms, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 443. 

641 Classified civil service, positions in. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 657. 

642 Civil service employees, 10 yr. service, pref. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 658. 


Mr. McKinney. 

(Pvepublican — Nassau and Suffolk.) 
(Taxation, Prisons, Education.) 

41 Senate, succeeding,senate and assembly. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 41. 

306 Laws, constitutionality, determine. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 310. 


Int. No. Mr. McLean. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Public Utilities, Militia, Printing.) 


i Mr. Mandeville. 

(Republican — Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and 
Tompkins.) 

(Education, Public Utilities, Industrial Interests.) 
162 Public Service, rates, legis. powers. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 162. 

366 State Charities Board, estab., powers. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 371. 
515 Court of claims, constitutional body. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 627. 

588 Inf. local courts, cities, juris. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 603. 

589 Bills, legislative, passage, etc. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 604. 

690 Court of appeals, abolishing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 605. 

591 App. Div., judges, number, laws, constit’lty. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 606. 

592 Supreme Court, in banc, justices sitting. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 607. 


Mr. Mann. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Corporations, Civil Service.) 

264 Direct tax for entire cost of state gov’t. 

Finance Com. Pr. 267. 

265 Pi^lic offi’ls, comp, fixing, chang. dur. term. 

Civil Service Com. Pr. 268. 

266 Approp. for local and private purp., prohib. 

Finance Com. Pr. 269. 

267 Crimes, answering for, self-incrimination. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 270. 

268 Juries, waiving, verdict, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 271. 

282 Cities, restricting use of lands, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 285. 

283 Taxes, licenses, penalties, collected by state 

only. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 286. 

284 Civil service, preference, tribunals, etc. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 287. 

285 Elections, absent electors, registr’n, voting. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 742. ^ 

373 Special laws, counties in N. Y. City 

Cities Com. Pr. 380. 

374 Cities, powers of self-government. 

Cities Com. Pr. 381. 




Republican —At Large.) 

(Bill of Rights (Ch.), Conservation, Judiciary. 
122 Stock corporations, election of directors. 
Corporations Com. Pr. 122. 

Const 1 amendmts, submtd to voters, vote. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 144. 
Const’n, in force from Jan. 1, 1916. 
Passed. Pr. 145. 

Pardon, state board of, providing for 
Com. of the Whole. Pr. 771. 


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Int. No Mr. F. • Martin. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 

(Bill of Rights, Governor and Other State Officers, 
Future Amendments.) 

409 First judicial dept., N. Y., Bronx Cos. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 421. 

460 Officials, public, removal, review of. 

County, Town & Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 472. 

461 Criminal charges, elim. grand jury. 

Bills of Rights Com. Pr. 473. 

505 Officials, receiving pension, pay of. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 517. 
636 Criminal actions, appeals. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 652. 


Mr. L. M. Martin. 

(Republican — Oneida.) 

(Legislative Powers, County, Town and Village 
Government.) 

178 Counties, erection, gov’t, county mgrs., etc. 

County, Town, Vil. Govt. Com. Pr. 178. 

179 Short ballot, atty-gen. deputies, etc. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 179. 

180 Business corp’ns, powers, reg. of, etc. 

Corporations Com. Pr. 180. 

181 Labor unions, formation of. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 181. 

319 Officers, election not provided. 

County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 323. 


Mr. Mathewson. 

(Republican — Kings.) 
(Taxation, Public Utilities.) 


Mr. Mealy. 

(Republican — Albany.) 

(Suffrage, Education.) 

566 Motor bus lines, franchises. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 581. 

Mr. Meigs. 

(Republican — Franklin and St. Lawrence.) 
(Conservation, Indians.) 

287 Elections, voting, 5 yrs. residence in U. S. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 290. 

318 Taxes, local, exemptions, abol. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 322. 

432 State budget, revenue bill, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 444. 

433 Conservation, state bd. of. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 445. 

Mr. Mereness. 

(Republican —Fulton and Hamilton, Herkimer 
and Lewis.) 

(County, Town, Village Officers (Ch.), Printing.) 

35 Municipal elections, money propositions, vote. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 35. 

36 Pub. officers, pay, change of during term. 

Com. discharged. Killed. 

379 Public officials, etc., extra compen. prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 386. 

380 Officials, pay, extra compen.. etc. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 387. 


Int. No. Mr. Mulry. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Banking and Insurance, Contingent Expenses, 
Charities.) 


Mr. Newburger. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Suffrage, Charities, Revision.) 

119 Land registration court, establishing. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 119. 

226 Election boards, appointment, election, etc. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 228. 

227 District attys., N. Y., Kings, terms, etc. 

County, Town, Vil. Officers Com Pr. 229. 

447 Special sessions, courts abolishing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 459. 

448 Special sessions, courts, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 460. 


Mr. C. Nicoll. 

(Republican — New York.) 

(Cities, Industrial Interests, Governor and Other 
State Officers.) 

123 Supreme court justices. Gov. appointing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 123. 

124 Supreme court justices, term. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 124. 

125 Short ballot, state officers appointed. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 125. 
198 Court of Appeals, judges, to be appointed. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 199. 

427 Civil service, preference, veterans, etc. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 439. 

626 Senators, Assemblymen, reducing number. 
Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 642. 


Mr. D. Nicoll. 

(Democrat — New York.) 
(Judiciary, Finance, Rules.) 


Mr. Nixon. 

(Republican — Erie.) 

(Taxation, Printing, Civil Service.) 

91 Electors, absent, right to vote. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 742. 

92 Taxes, religious, cemetery prop, not exempt. 

Taxation Com Pr. 92. 

666 English text-books, schools, exclusive use. 
Education Com. Pr. 682. 


Mr. Nye. 

(Republican — Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and 
Tompkins.) 

(Suffrage, Public Utilities.) 

514 Law, practice, county judge, surrogate. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 526. _ 


Mr. J. L. O’Brian. 

(Republican —At Large.) 

(County, Town, Village Government (Ch.), Rules 
(Ch.), Cities.) 

280 Home rule, cities and villages. 

Cities Com. Pr. 283. 







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Int. No. Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Bill of Rights, Library and Information, Conser¬ 
vation.) 

673 Senators, maximum to any county. 

Adverse report adopted. Pr. 722. 


Mr. O’Connor. 

(Democrat — Erie.) 

(Bill of Rights, Canals, Industrial Relations.) 
332 Supt. Banks, Insurance, Pub. Serv. Com’rs, 

Gov. & other State Officers Com. Pr. 336. 

601 Bills, passage, emergency message. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 616. 

602 Workmen’s compen. com., labor dept., sep. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 617. 

603 Workmen’s compen., state insurance. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 618. 


Mr. Olcott. 

(Republican — New York.) 

(Bill of Rights, Legislative Powers, Public 
Utilities.) 

7 Gen. sessions court, N. Y. city, abolish. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 7. 

29 Civil service, veterans, preference. 
Reported adversely. Pr. 29. 

249 Public Utilities Commissions. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 718. 


Mr. Ostrander. 

(Republican — Saratoga and Washington.) 
(Taxation, Prisons, Revision.) 

273 Judicial officers, qualific’ns, prac. of law, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 276. 

316 Claims vs. state, determination of. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 320. 

568 City bills, return to legislature. 

Cities Com. Pr. 583. 


Mr. Owen. 

(Republican — Clinton, Essex and Warren.) 
(Suffrage, Prisons.) 


Mr. Parker. 

(Republican — Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga and 
Tompkins.) 

(County, Town and Village Officers, Militia.) 


Mr. Parmenter. 

(Republican — Ontario, Wayne and Yates.) 
(Industrial Interests, Charities, County, Town and 
Village Government.) 

693 Charities and Correction, dept. of. 

Charities Com. Pr. 608. 

694 County officers, election, terms. 

County, Town, Vill. Officers Com. Pr. 609. 

Local courts, abol., except in N. Y. City, etc. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 610. 


Int. No. Mr. Parsons. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Industrial Interests (Ch.), Finance, Rules.) 

5 Testifying against self, criminal cases. 

. Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 5. 

6 Loans, state, municipal, proceeds, use of. 

Finance Com. Pr. 6. 

270 State dept, of Industry, indus. bd., 5 memb. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 273. 

286 Elections, residence, registration, etc. 
Suffrage Com. Pr. 298. 

405 Workmen’s compensation, laws, enacting. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 417. 

406 Workmen’s compensation laws, etc. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 418. 

407' Manufacturing in dwellings. 

Passed. Pr. 864. 

408 Workmen’s compen., state insur., etc. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 420. 

499 Judges, separate elections for. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 511. 

600 Condemnation excess, pub. improv. 

Bill of Right Com. Pr. 512. 

501 Legislators, civil appointment, U. S. Senate. 
Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 513. 

543 Forests, timber, regul. by state. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 558. 

544 Court of appeals, opinion, proposed statutes. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 559. 

545 Industrial Council, estab. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 560. 

628 Bills, final passage, calling roll. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 644. 

629 State sinking funds, income from. 

Finance Com. Pr. 645. 

630 Estimates, budget. Gov. to submit to Legis. 

Finance Com. Pr. 646. 


Mr. Pelletreau. 

(Republican — Nassau and Suffolk.) 
(Finance, Governor and Other State officers.) 

160 Legislators, terms of, increasing. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 166. 

167 Legislature, biennial sessions. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 167. 

168 Appropria’n bills, local, orig. in Assembly. 

Finance Com. Pr. 168. 

188 Juries, of 6, waiving, etc., verdict. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 189. 

221 State budgets, preparing; Gov’s, sal’ry, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 223. 

222 Short ballot, state officers, appointing. 

Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
Pr. 224. 

223 State officers, seats in legislature. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 225. 


Mr. J. S. Phillips. 

(Republican — Livingston and Steuben.) 
(Library and Information (Ch.), Legislative 
Powers, Banking and Insurance.) 


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Int. No. Mr. S. K. Phillips. 

(Republican — Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam.) 
(Contingent Expenses (Ch.), Education, Civil 
Service.) 

77 Civil service, preferences, vol. firemen, vet’ns. 
Reported adversely. Pr. 77. 


Mr. Potter. 

(Democrat — New York.) 
(Finance, Public Utilities, Education.) 


Mr. Quigg 

(Republican — Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam.) 
(Legislative Organization, County, Town and Vil¬ 
lage Government, Revision.) 

76 Witness against self, criminal cases. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 76. 

138 Civil service, appointment, promotion. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 138. 

139 Prize fighting, prohibiting laws for. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 139. 

508 Veterans civil service, pref. abol. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 520. 

677 Libel, reparative publicity. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 694. 


Mr. Reeves. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

(Bill of Rights, Public Utilities.) 

1 Probate division, supreme court, estab. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 1. 

2 Land division, supreme court, estab. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 2. 

262 Courts, special, limited juris., elim., etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 265. 

308 Judicial power, reorganize. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 312. 

444 Superintendent of records, certain counties. 

County, Town & Vil. Govt. Com. Pr. 456. 
487 Surrogates, powers, juris. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 499. 

527 Land division, sup. ct. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 542. 


Mr. Rhees. 

(Republican —^ Monroe.) 

(Chairman, Civil Service. Governor and Other 
State officers. Conservation.) 

390 Liquors, damage by intoxicated person. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 397. 

657 State Civil Service Com., providing for. 

Reported adverselv. Pr. 073. 

65S State Civil Service Com.; powers, etc. 
Reported adversely. Pr. 674. 


Mr. Richards. 

yDemocrat — Richmond and Rockland.) 
(Banking and Insurance, Civil Service, Privileges 
and Elections.) 

30 Legis., biennial sess., terras, members, etc. 
Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 30. 


Int. No. Mr. Rodenbeck. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Revision (Ch.), Judiciary, Library and Informa¬ 
tion. 

183 Court rules, providing, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 183. 

184 Legis. Bills, approval legis. counsel. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 184. 

185 Judiciary counsel, desig’n by app. div., etc. 

Judicary Com. Pr. 185. 

277 Laws, classification, indexing, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 280. 

278 Juries, eliminating certain cases, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 281. 

352 Appellate courts, to take evidence, etc. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 356. 

475 W^ater, water power, use of, regul. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 487. 

476 County courts, jurisdiction of. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 488. 


Mr. Root. 

(Republican — At Large.) 


Mr. Rosch. 

(Republican — Orange and Sullivan.) 
(Corporations, County, Town and Village Officers.) 
137 Impeachment court, members of, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 137. 

203 Strikes, lockouts, etc., regul. by legis’ture. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 204. 

507 Prison commission, change name. 

Prison Com. Pr. 519. 

562 County judges, surrogates, salaries. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 577. 


Mr. Ryan. 

(Democrat — Qiu'cns.) 
(Banking and Insurance, Taxation.) 
307 Magistrates, inf. ct. judges, removal. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 311. 

322 Streets, etc., open, grade, damages. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 326. 


Mr. Ryder. 

(Republican — Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam.) 
(Taxation, Education, County, Town and Village 
Officers.) 


M” Sanders. 

(Republican — Erie.) 

(Cities, Public Utilities.) 

187 Optional city and village gov’t plans. 

Cities Com. Pr. 187. 

210 Officers, election not provided for. 

County, Town and Village Govt. Com. 
Pr. 211. 

478 Highway funds, reapportioning. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 490. 

665 Debt limit, first class cities, water supply. 
Cities Com. Pr. 681, 





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Int. No. Mr. Sargent. 

(Republican — Kings.) 

{Charities, Education.) 

225 Voting, compulsory. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 227. 

311 App. Div., special, trial terms, desig., etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 315. 

425 Court procedure, comm’n to revise. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 437. 

492 Monopolies, laws to prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 504. 


Mr. j. G. Saxe. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Powers, Suffrage, Conservation.) 

4 State convention, nominations; registration. 
Com. of the \^'hole. Pr. 729. 

214 Claims against State, approval, delegating 
power. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 738. 

232 Witness against self, criminal cases. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 234. 

233 Juries, waiving, number of, verdict, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 235. 

458 State budget, appropriation bills, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 470. 

498 Executive branch, state gov’t., reorg. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 510. 
540 Executive Branch State Gov’t, reorg. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 555. 
694 tState govt., executive branch, reorg. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 727. 

Mr. M. Saxe. 

(Republican — New York.) 

(Taxation (Ch.), Legislative Organization.) 
146 Officers, local, election not provided for. 

County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 'l46. 

297 Civil Service employees, pension system. 

Civil Service Com. Pr. 301. 

378 Tax officials, election, appointment. 

Countv. Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 385. 

674 N. Y. City. Buffalo, pub. franchise, condmn. 
Cities Com. Pr. 691. 

Mr. Schoonhut. 

(Democrat — Erie.) 

(County, Town and Village Government, Indians.) 

J'r. Schurman. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Education (Ch.), Bill of Rights, Legislative 
Powers.) 

161 Public Service Com., two districts. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 161. 

276 Senators, reducing number, increase terms. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 279. 

513 Education, of children a state function. 
Education Com, Pr. 525. 

Mr. Sears. 

(Republican — Erie.) 

(Judiciary, Contingent Expenses.) 

367 Courts, limited juris., cities, uniform. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 372. 


Int. No. 

368 Criminal charges, procedure, rights, etc. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 373. 

369 Jury trial, waiving, cfim. cases. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 374. 

606 County officers, election, terms. 

County, Town & Vil. Gov’t Com. Pr. 621. 

607 Judges, Gov. to nominate candidate. 

Judiciary Com, Pr. 622. 

664 Appeals, sup. ct. judges, time of electing. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 680. 


Mr. Sharpe. 

(Republican — Greene and Ulster.) 
(County, Town and Village Government, Future 
Amendments, Contingent Expenses.) 


Mr. Sheehan. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Powers, Rules, Judiciary.) 

26 Ct. of appeals, reorgan., appointive judges. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 26, 

231 Senatorial dists., altering. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 233. 


Mr. Shipman. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Cities, Education, Indians.) 

147 Laws, constitutionality of, determining. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 147. 

218 Public defenders, counties, election, etc. 

County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 219. 

344 State Hospital Commission. 

Charities Com. Pr. 348. 

502 Court of Appeals, vacancies, filling. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 514. 

503 Supreme Ct., vacancies, filling. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 515. 

504 Corporations, action by or against. 

Corporations Com. Pr. 516. 


Mr. Slevin. 

(Democrat — Bronx.) 

(Finance, County, Town and Village Government.) 
173 Jurors, religious beliefs of. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 173. 


Mr. A. E. Smith. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Legislative Organization, Legislative Powers, In¬ 
dustrial Interests.) 

193 Minimum wage laws, permitting. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 791. 

194 Employees, protecting, laws for. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 765. 

195 Manufacturing, in dwellings, limiting. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 196. 

196 Employees, laws for, commission for, etc. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 197. 

247 Elections, absent R. R. employees. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 742. 

338 Appropriation bills, passage, etc. 

FL»>ance Com. Pr. 342. 





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339 Claims vs. state, contract debts, accrual. 

Finance Com. Pr. 343. 

340 Public improvements, serial bonds for, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 344. 

341 Approp’s, desired, statement, transmitting. 

Finance Com. Pr. 345. 

355 Assemblymen, districts, reapportion. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 359 
493 Taxation, municipal property. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 733. 

537 Schools, denominational, state aid. 

Education Com. Pr. 552. 

723 Civil service, eligibility. 

Civil Service Com. Pr. 840. 

Mr. E. N. Smith. 

(Republican — Jefferson and Oswego.) 
(Governor and Other State Officers, Cities, Conser¬ 
vation.) 

84 Forest pres., cutting, timber, revenues, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 84. 

85 State officers, reorganizing. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 85. 

86 State departments, reorganizing. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 86. 

87 Governor, Lieut.-Governor, 4-year terms. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 87. 
106 Inferior local courts, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 106. 

156 Legislature, extra sess., annual budget, etc. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 156. 

157 Approp. bills. Governor’s veto power. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 157. 

158 Fiscal year, fixing, appro, of 1916, term of. 

Finance Com. Pr. 158. 

241 Governor, impeachment, powers pend, trial. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 243. 

242 Gov., impeachment, Lieut.-Gov. to act. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 244. 
301 Inferior local cts., territorial jurisdiction. 
Judiciarv Com. Pr. 305. 

511 Home rule, cities. 

Cities Com. Pr. 724. 

512 Water power, storage, lands for. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 524. 

648 Stock corp’ns, directors’ elections, voting. 

Corporations Com. Pr. 664. 

649 State, municipal bonds, serial. 

Finance Com. Pr. 665. 


Mr. R. B. Smith. 

(Republican — Onondaga.) 

(Legislative Organization, Canals, Indians.) 

37 Forest preserve, camp sites, roads, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 37. 

38 Bi-partisan election boards, regulating. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 38. 

54 Drainage of lands, local bills for, prohib. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 54. 

55 Private property, taking for drainage. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 407. 

56 Court of claims, composition, pay. 

Judiciary Com. Pr, 56. 

111 State officers term durins: Gov. pleasure. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 111. 
]'•> Legislative bills, final passage, vote on. 
I.egislative Powers Com. Pr. 112. 


No. 

Elections, paper ballot only. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 113, 

Legislators, receiving other appointments. 

Legislative Organizations Com, Pr. 130. 
Impeachment, judges, state officers. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 141. 

Tax. direct, partial veto by Governor. 

Finance Com. Pr. 212. 

Elections, paper ballots only, straight ticket. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 730. 

Cities, villages, creation, gov’t. 

Cities Com. Pr. 797. 

Judicial officers, qualifications. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 258. 

Laws, must be complete in themselves. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 700. 
Supervisors, delegation of powers to. 

County, Town, Vil. Gov’t Com. Pr. 291. 
Officials, extra compensation, prohibiting. 
Passed. Pr, 800. 

Legis., quorum, temporary presiding officer. 
Passed. Pr. 841. 

Legislature, extra sessions, calling, etc. 

Passed. Pr. 819. 

Direct state tax laws, contents. 

Finance Com. Pr. 307. 

Appropriations, bill to specify object, etc. 

Finance Com. Pr. 330, 

Governor, vacancy, impeachment. 

Passed. Pr. 846, 

Governor, speaker,' succession to office of, etc. 
Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 393. 
. County courts, jurisdiction, regulating. 
Judiciary Com, Pr. 426. 

Public works, supt. of, abolishing. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com, Pr. 446. 
County officers, N. Y. City, terms, removal. 
County, Town and Village Officers Com. 
Pr. 447. 

Prisons, state supt. of, abolish. 

Prisons Com. Pr. 448. 

Revenue bonds, anticipation of taxes. 

Finance Com. Pr. 449. 

State debts, serial bonds for. 

Finance Com. Pr. 481. 

Funded debts, maturity, etc. 

Cities Com. Pr. 482^ 

Educations Bds. cities, appointing. 

Education Com. Pr, 483. 

Priyate, local bills, constit’ly of. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 743. 

Banking, moneyed corp’ns, regul. 

Legislatiye Powers Com. Pr. 595. 

Stock exchanges, boards, etc., superyision. 

Legislatiye Powers Com. Pr. 596. 
Weighing, etc., regul., offices for. 

Industrial Interests Com. Pr. 597. 
Financial management state institutions. 

Goy. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 598. 
Laws reyising, comm’n on. 

Legislatiye Powers Com. Pr. 599. 

Civil actions, procedure, rules for. 
Judiciary Com, Pr. 720. 

Mr. T. F. Smith. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Cities. Charities.) 

Election laws, uniform. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 468. 


Int. 

113 

130 

141 

211 

212 

254 

255 

275 

288 

289 

290 

291 

303 

326 

385 

386 

414 

434 

435 

436 

437 

469 

470 

471 

579 

580 

581 

582 

583 

584 

690 

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496 Taxation, local, state prop, exempt. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 508. 

497 Elections, laws, bi-partisan bds., etc. 

Suffrage Com. Pr. 509. 


Mr. Stanchfield. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Judiciary, Finance, Library and Information.) 


Mr. Standart. 

(Republican — Erie.) 

(County, Town and Village Officers, Taxation.) 

93 Legislators, terms, salaries, biennial sessions. 

Legislative Organization Cora. Pr. 93. 

94 Constitutional amend’ts referred by legis., 

vote. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. 94. 


Mr. Steinbrink. 

(Republican —Kings.) 

(Taxation, Judiciary.) 

27 Condemnation com’rs, abol. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 27. 

42 Voting, absentee, registration, laws for. 
Suffrage Com. Pr. 742. 

64 Sup. Ct. justice, designation to succeed self. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 64. 

65 Sup. court justices, number in any district. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 65. 

66 Supreme court justices, compensation. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 66. 

142 Civ. service, competitive, removal, etc. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 142. 

189 Referees, official, restricting. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 190. 

215 N. city, county courts, merging. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 216. 

336 App. Div., justices, powers, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 340. 

371 State Commission in Lunacy. 

Passed. Pr. 827. 

481 Judges, surrogates, age limit. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 493. 

528 Civil service removal, etc. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 543. 

617 Navigation, improvement, taking prop. for. 

Bill of Rights Cora. Pr. 633. 

618 Pensions, civil employees, when forfeiting. 

Gov. & Other State Officers. Com. Pr. 634. 

619 State, municipal property, tax exemption. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 635. 

620 Taxes, equal, uniform throughout state. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 636. 

621 N. Y. city municipal court, continuing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 637. 


Mr. Stimson. ^ 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(State Finances (Ch.), Governor and Other State 
Officers. Judiciary.) 

541 Judges, nomination by Gov. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 556. 

542 Inferior local court, juris. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 557. 


Int. No. Mr. Stowell. 

(Republican—Jefferson and Oswego.) 
(Suffrage, Charities.) 


Mr. Tanner. 

(Republican—New York.) 

(Governor and Other State Officers (Ch.), Legis 
lative Powers.) 

343 Appropriation bills. Governor, reduce. 

Finance Com. Pr. 347. 

360 Governor, bills, signing, time of. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 740. 

459 Legislators, terms, doubling, short ses., etc. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 471. 
550 Claims, private or local bills for. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 732. 

623 Governor, power .of removal. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 639. 


I Mr. Tierney. 

(Republican — Clinton, Essex and Warren.) 
(Legislative Organization, Privileges and Elec¬ 
tions.) 

104 Judges, practicing law, prohibit. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 104. 

105 Party conventions, state officers, etc. 

(join, of the Whole. Pr. 745. 

465 Products of prison labor sale, etc. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 768. 

572 County judge, to be surrogate. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 587. 


Mr. Tuck. 

(Republican — Monroe.) 

(Legislative Powers, County, Town and Village 
Officers, Canals.) 

164 Sup. Ct., special, trial terms, desig. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 536. 

294 Legislators, compensation, increasing. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 297. 

597 Grade changes, damages, compen. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 612. 

659 State militia, compulsory service. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 675. 


Mr. Unger. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Taxation, Industrial Interests, Civil Service.) 
8 Judges, candidates for other office. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 8. ^ 

102 State university, free, legis., to provide. 

Education Com. Pr. 102. 

136 Civil Service Com., bi-partisan. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 736. 


Mr. Vanderlyn. 

(Republican—Greene and Ulster.) 

(Bill of Rights. Education, County, Towm and 
Village Government.) 

103 Common school sys., free, legis, to provide. 

Education Com. Pr. 103. 

206 Juries, verdict by five-sixths, civil actions. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 207. 




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272 Funded debts, municipalities, regulating. 

County, Town, Vil. Gov’t Com. Pr. 275. 
563 Justices of peace, number, juris. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 578. 


Mr. Van Ness. 

('Republican — Montgomery, Schenectady and 
Schoharie.) 

(Finance, Banking and Insurance.) 

646 State, municipal bonds, serial. 

Finance Com. Pr. 662. 


Mr. Wadsworth. 

(Republican — Livingston and Steuben.) 
(Charities (Ch.), Legislative Powers.) 

327 State Board of Charities, powers, etc. 

Charities Com. Pr. 331. 

328 State Lunacy Commission. 

Charities Com. Pr. 332. 

329 State Commission of Prisons, creating. 

Prisons Com. Pr. 333. 

415 Short ballot, state officers. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 427. 

416 State income, statement, transmit legis. 

Finance Com. Pr. 428. 

417 Legislators, terms, doubling. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 429. 

418 Short ballot, state officers, appoint. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 430. 

419 Governor, lieutenant-governor, 4-year terms. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 431. 

420 Legislature, sessions, closing. 

Legislative Organizatioti Com. Pr. 432. 

Mr. Wafer. 

(Democrat — K ings.) 

(Taxation; County, Town and Village Officers.) 

Mr. Wagner. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Rules, Judiciary, Finance.) 

68 Municipal self government, cities, villages. 

^ Cities Com. Pr. 719. 

99 Highway debt sinking fund, contrib., etc. 
Finance Com. Pr. 99. 

100 State debts, creating, sinking funds for. 

Finance Com. Pr. 100. 

126 State property, not to be taxed. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 126. 

342 Taxes, direct, comptroller reduce. 

Finance Com. Pr. 346. 

358 Labor not a commodity. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 363. 

426 Highway moneys, apportioning. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 438. 

457 Judges, removal, terminating office. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 469. 

682 Special sessions ct., N. Y. City, continuing. 
Judiciary Com. Pr. 702. 


Mr. Ward. 

(Democrat — K ings.) 
(Education, Future Amendments.) 


Int. No. Mr. Waterman. 

(Republican — Franklin and St. Lawrence.) 
(Suffrage, Charities.) 

647 State Board of Charities, providing for. 
Charities Com. Pr. 663. 


Mr. C. A. Webber. 

(Democrat — Kings.) 

(Taxation, County, Town and Village Govern 
ment.) 

245 Offices, abolishing, transfer of powers. 
Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 248. 


Mr. R. E. Weber. 

(Republican — Queens.) 
(Suffrage, Industrial Interests.) 


Mr. Weed. 

(Democrat — Queens.) 

(Bill of Rights, Cities, Civil Service.) 

132 Jury trials, civ. cases, regul. by legislature. 

Bill of rights Com. Pr. 132. 

261 Property, priv., condemnat’n for pub. purp. 
Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 264. 

613 Cities, local self government. 

Cities Com. Pr. 629. 

614 Spanish war veterans, civil serv. pref. 

Reported adversely. Pr. 630. 


Mr. Westwood. 

(Republican — Cattaraugus and Chautauqua.) 

(Public Utilities, Militia.) 

95 Suits, against state as against individual. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 95. 

116 Juries, civil verdict; waiving criminal cases. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 408. 

424 Tax exemption, real prop., proliib. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 750. 

479 Highways, cost of. apportioning. 

Public Utilities Com. Pr. 811 
611 Courts, reorganizing generally. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 626. 

667 Legislative bills, limit on passage. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 683. 


Mr. Wheeler. 

(Republican — Livingston and Steuben.) 
(Legislative Powers, Banking and Insurance.) 

Mr. Whipple. 

(Republican — Cattaraugus and Chautauqua.) 
(Conservation, Indians.) 

25 Forest preserve, dead timber, camp sites, etc. 
Conservation Com. Pr. 25. 

610 Excise Department, constitutional office. 

Gov. & Other State Officers Com. Pr. 625. 


Mr. C. J. White. 

(Repulilican — Monroe.) 
(Suffrage, Future Amendments.) 




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Int. No. Mr. J. J. White. 

(Democrat — New York.) 

(Education, County, Town and Village Officers.) 
3 Legislators, eligibility, city office holders. 
Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 3. 

Mr. Wickersham. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Judiciary (Ch.), Civil Service, Library and 
Information.) 

216 Juries, service on, exemption, prohib. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 217. 

217 Juries, verdict; waiving crim. cases. 

Bill of Rights. Pr. 218. 

359 Court rules, comm’n on, chairman. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 364. 

377 N. Y. City, superior ct., establishing. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 628. 

624 Private, local bills, reasons for, public’n, etc. 
Com. of the Whole. Pr. 759. 

Mr. Wiggins. 

(Republican — Orange and Sullivan.) 
(Cities, Canals, Charities.) 

32 Assemblymen, two-year terms. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 32. 

51 Voter’s residence in county to be 30 days. 
Com. of the Whole. Pr. 821. 

73 Highway com’r, to be elected. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 73. 

74 Governor, Lieut.-Governor, eligibility for. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 74. 

75 Highway com’r, first election of. 

Gov. and Other State Officers Com. Pr. 75. 
127 Registration, absent voters, law for. 
Suffrage Com. Pr. 742. 

204 Police, chiefs, free transport’n, authorizing. 

Public Utilities. Com. Pr. 205. 

205 Legislators, may act as notaries during term. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 206. 
314 N. Y. City, county officers, pay, fixing. 

Cities Com. Pr. 318. 

345 Canal Board, fix canal tolls. 

Canals Com. Pr. 349. 

346 Jurors, additional, fill vacancies. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 350. 

411 Debts, counties, cities, sinking funds for. 

Cities Com. Pr. 423. 

428 Court of appeals, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 440. 

464 Legislature, sessions, date of beginning. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 476. 

560 Inferior local courts, jurisdiction. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 575. 

561 Justice of peace, district courts, jurisdict’n. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 576. 

Mr. Williams. 

(Republican — Fulton and Hamilton, Herkimer 
and Lewis.) 

(Suffrage, Corporations.) 

Mr. Winslow. 

(Republican — Westchester.) 

(Civil Service, Prisons.) 

200 City employees, maximum hours. 

Cities Com. Pr. 201. 


Int. No. Mr. Wood. 

(Republican — Allegany, Genesee and Wyoming.) 
(Charities, Corporations, Library and Informa¬ 
tion.) 

351 Civil service, veterans, etc., preference. 
Reported adversely. Pr. 355. 

Mr. C. H. Young. 

(Republican — At Large.) 

(Privileges and Elections (Ch.), Judiciary.) 

10 Forest preserve, timber, removal, camp sites. 

■Conservation Com. Pr. 10. 

11 Life, twice in jeopardy for same offense. 

Bill of Rights Com. Pr. 11. 

12 Supervisors, electing as county officers. 

County, Town, Vil. Gov’t Com. Pr. 12. 

13 State budget commission, establish. 

Finance Com. Pr. 13. 

14i County judges, legis. to regulate terms, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 14. 

71 Forest preserve, use of, timber, com’r, etc. 

Conservation Com. Pr. 71. 

152 Co. judges, cts., N. Y. City ct., gen. sess. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 152. 

251 Courts, county, general sessions, etc. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 254. 

410 County cts., N. Y. City ct., judges, juris. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 422. 

463 Official referees, judges, sup. ct., ct. of app. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 712. 

686 Voters, educational qualification. 

Killed. Pr. 776. 

Mr. F. L. Young. 

(Republican — Westchester.) 

(County, Town and Village Government, Future 
Amendments.) 

506 State university, change name. 

Education Com. Pr. 518. 

Bill of Rights Committee. 

720 Rights, amending generally. 

Passed. Pr. 870. 

Canals Committee. 

710 Canals, disposing of, prohibit. 

Passed. Pr. 845. 

Cities Committee. 

712 ^ Home rule for cities, granting. 

Passed. Pr. 851. 

713 Debts, cities, counties, villages, regul. 

Passed. Pr. 862. 

724 Building zones, cities. 

Cora, of the Whole. Pr. 848. 

Conservation Committee. 

708 Conservat’on dept., reorganizing. 

Passed. Pr. 852. 

County, Town and Village Government Committee. 

721 County government, form of, changing. 

Passed. Pr. 853. 

County, Town and Village Officers Committee. 
691 Coroner, to be constitutional office. 

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717 County officers, removal; sheriff re-election. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 805. 

Education Committee. 

698 Education of children a state function. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 820. 

704 Education boards for cities; powers. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 757. 

Finance Committee. 

692 State debts, creating, regulating. 

Finance Com. Pr. 739. 

705 State debts, serial bonds for. 

Passed. Pr. 784. 

709 State budget, providing for. 

Passed. Pr. 809. 

719 Appropriations, local or private purposes. 
Passed. Pr. 854. 

Future Amendments Committee. 

715 Constitutional amendts., submtg. to electors. 

Passed. Pr. 855. 

Governor and Other State Officers Committee. 
702 Governor, Lieut.-Gov., terms, salary. 
Passed. Pr. 868. 

716 State depts.. offices, reorganizing. 

Passed. Pr. 863. 

725 Canal board, land office com’rs. 

Passed. Pr. 857. 

Indian Relations Committee. 

707 Tribal courts, abolishing. 

Passed. Pr. 799. 

Industrial Interests Committee. 

714 Workmen’s Compen., occupational, diseases. 
Passed. Pr. 865. 

Judiciary Committee. 

718 Judiciary article, revising generally. 

Passed. Pr. 850. 


Int. No. 

Legislative Organization Committee. 

680 Reapportionment, legislative. 

Legislative Organization Com. Pr. 697. 
697 Legislators’ salary, increasing. 

Passed. Pr. 835. 

722 Reapportionment, regulating. 

Passed. Pr. 869. 


Legislative Powers Committee 

695 Impeachment court, convening, time. 

Judiciary Com. Pr. 731. 

696 Legislature, powers, regulating. 

Passed. Pr. 861. 

699 Election laws, not to favor political parties. 

Com. of the Whole. Pr. 752. 

709 Charters, amending, cities, villages. 

Legislative Powers Com. Pr. 753. 

701 Privileges, immunity, particular classes, pro¬ 
hibited. 

Killed. Pr. 808. 

Public Utilities Committee. 

706 Public Service Com., constitutional body 
Public Utilities Com. Pr. 856.. 

Suffrage Committee. 

703 Woman suffrage, amendment submitted by 
legislature. 

Future Amendments Com. Pr. (—). 

711 Absent electors, registration, etc. 

Passed. Pr. 844. 


Taxation Committee. 

612 State Tax Com., 3 members, constit’l body. 

Taxation Com. Pr. 627. 

679 Taxation, legislature to regulate. 

Passed. Pr. 834. 




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SUBJECT INDEX 

OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 


Giving latest printed number, name of introducer and introductory number. For complete record 

see introductory number record. 


A Int. No. 

Abandonment cases, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 579. By Mr. Clearwater. 564 

Abandonment, cases, cts., local, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Accounts, dept, of, art. 5. 

Pr. 863. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 716 
Actions vs. state, as an individual, art. 1, § 1. 

Pr. 95. By Mr. Westwood. 95 

Administration, bureau of, estab., art. 4 neAv; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Aerial forces. State militia, art. 11, § 3. 

Pr. 413. By Mr. Bannister.. 401 

Air, pressure, vessels, regiiL, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty. 488 

Appeal, by people, criminal action, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 652. By Mr. F. Martin.. . 636 

Appeals, by people in crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 11 

Appeals, court of. (See “ Court of Appeals.”) 
Appeals, crim. cases, as of right, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 506. By Mr. Harawitz. 494 

Appeals, crim. ct. of, establ., art. 6, new § 6. 

Pr. 21. By Mr. Aiken.,. 21 

Appeals, of right, art. 1, §§ 4-7; art. 8, § 9; 

repeal § 1 of art. 7 

Pr. 870. Bill of Rights Com. 720 

App. Div., abol., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 5-7, 9, 12, 
14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood. 611 

App. Div., abol., art# 6, §§ 2, 7. 

Pr. 457. By Mr. Bayes... 445 

App. Div., depts., judges, etc., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 606. By Mr. Mandeville. 591 

App. div., design, judiciary counsel, art. 6, 
new § 2-b. 

Pr. 185. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 185 

App. Div,, desig. justices, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 148. By Mr. Bernstein. 148 

App. Div., 1st, 2nd, depts., increase, art. 6. 

Pr . 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

App, Div., judges, etc., regul., art. 6, haw §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams. 485 

App. Div., juris., etc., regul., art. 6, §§ 1-13. 

Pr. 30b. By Mr. Gladding. 302 

App. Div., justices, desig., etc., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 340. By Mr. Steinbrink. 336 

App. Div., justices, salary, 3rd, 4th depts., 
art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 242. By Mr. Clearwater. 240 

App. div., tc make ct. rules, art, 6, new § 2-a. 

Pr. 183. By Mr. Rndenbeck. 183 

App, Div., remove co. off, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 805. County, Town & Vill. Com... 717 
App. Div., remove infer ct. judges, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Mr. Deyo. 522 


Int. No. 

App. div’ns, regul., art. 6, §§ 1, 2, 4, 7, 12; 

§ 8 repeal. 

Pr. 231. By Mr. Kirk. 229 

App. Div., remove county officers, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 435 

App. Div., take evid., etc., art. 6, new § 9-a. 

Pr. 356. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 352 

App. Div., trial, spec, terms, fix, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 315. By Mr. Sargent. 311 

App. Div., veto civ. code bill, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 638. By Mr. Baldwin. 622 

Appro, bills, introducing, time of, art. 3, §§ 

21, 22; art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 470. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 458 

Appropriations, emergency, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 604. By Mr. Mandeville. 589 

Appro, bills, vetoes by Gov., art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 157. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 157 

Appro., annual budget, etc., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 156. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 156 

Appro, bills, orig. in Assembly, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 168. By Mr. Pelletreau. 168 

Appro, bills pass., art. 3, §§ 15, 20, 21, 24. 

Pr. 342. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 338 

Appro, bills, veto items, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 347. By Mr. Tanner. 343 

Appro, by legislature, art. 4, § 10 new. 

Pr. 13. By Mr. C. H. Young. 13 

Appropriations by legislature, budget, art. 4, 
new § 10. 

Pr. 19. By Mr. Aiken. 19 

Appropriations, conserv’n dept., annual, new 
art; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By (^Conservation Com. 708 

Appro’s, laws making, regul. art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 330. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 326 

Appropriation, life, 1 year, art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Appropriat’ns, limit to budget, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 444. By Mr. Meigs. 432 

Appropriations, limit to income, art. 5, new §. ’ 

Pr. 428. By Mr. Wadsworth. 416 

Appro., 1916, period cov. by, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 158. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 158 

Appro’s, sinking funds, regul., art. 7, § 11. 

Pr. 532. By Mr. Lincoln. 520 

Appropriations, priv., local, art. 3, § 20. 

Pr. 269. By Mr. Mann. 266 

Appropriations, private, local, art. 3, § 20. 

Pr. 854. Finance Com. 719 

Appro, recommend by Gov., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 345. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 341 

Appropriations, private claims, prohib., art. 

3, new 

Pr. 808. By Legislative Powers C'om... 701 
Appropriations, regul., art. 7, §§ 2, 4, 5, 11. 

Pr. 739. By Finance Com. 692 






















































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Appropriations, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Appro., sinking fund surplus, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 200. By Mr. Blauvelt. 190 

Appro., state budget, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 646. By Mr. Parsons. 630 

Appropriations, state budget, etc., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Appropriations, state budget for, art, 3, § 21. 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709 

Appropriations, state, life of, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 79. By Mr. Austin. 79 

Approp’s, to meet pub. improv. bonds, art. 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 

Arbitration, dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Arbitration, laws for, strikes, etc., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 204. By Mr. Bosch. 203 

Arrests: 

Civil cases, limitation upon, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 59. By Mr. Buxbaum. 59 

Civil cases, limiting, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 361. By Mr. Brenner. 357 

Civil cases, prohib., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 117. By Mr. Latson. 117 

Assessments, for taxes, uniform, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 46. By Mr. Griffin. 46 

Athletics, fighting exhibits, forbid, art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 139. By Mr. Quigg.-139 

Atty.'Gen., deputies, assign depts., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 179 


Atty.-Gen., appointed by Gov., art. 4, § 4; 

, art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 10, § 9; art. 8, 

§ 12; art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal 
§§ 3, 4, 7; art 5, renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 

Atty.-Gen., appointed by Gov., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Atty-Gen., appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletreau. 222 

Attorney-General, canal board, art. 5, repeal 


§ 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 725 
Atty.-Gen., conserv’n advis. bd., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell. 569 

Atty.-Gen., election, art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Atty-Gen., elect., app’t., regul., art. 5, §§ 1-3 
and new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 

Attorney-general, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Dooling. 134 

Attorney-general, 4-year term, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 


Att-Gen., head dept, jus., art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. Gov. "& Other State Off. Com, 716 
Atty.-Gen., head law dept., art. 4 new; art. 5 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Atty.-Gen., legal affairs, state depts,, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 620. By Mr. Kirby. 605 

Attorney-Gen., memb. Gov’s coun., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Attorney-Gen,, seat in legis., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 

Attorney-gen., state, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 109. By Mr. Bockes. 109 


Attorney-gen., term, repeal art. 5, repeal § 2. 

Pr. 110. By Mr. Bockes. HO 

Attorney-gen., to be appointed by gov., art. 

5, § 1. , 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 125 

Attorneys, admiss. to prac., oath, art. 13, § 1. 

Pr. 153. By Mr. Clearwater. 153 

Attorney-general, head state law dept., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Audit, dept, of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; 
new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 716 
Audit, state dept, of, art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.540 

Audit, state dept, of, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Audit, state dept, of, estab., art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 519. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Auditor-Gen., elec, by legis., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 692. By Mr, Franchot. 675 

AGRICULTURE 

Com’r of, appointment, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein.172 

Com’r of, to be elected by people, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 10'9. By Mr. Bockes. 109 

Dept, of, art. o, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 

5. 

Pr. 863. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 716 
Division of, estab., art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Division of, executive dept., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Div. of, state gov., art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Drainage, local bills for, prohib., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 54. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 54 

Drainage, prop, for, art, 1, § 7 and new §. 

Pr. 407. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 55 

Irrigation, drainage, conserv’n dept., art. 7, 
new § 7, 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 438 

Irrigation, Pub. Serv. Com. to regul., art. 

5, new § . 

Pr. 708. By Mr. Landreth. 688 

Lands, leases, reserved rents, art. 1, repeal 
§ 13. 

Pr. 34. By Mr. Austin. 34 

Supervision by commerce and labor dept., art. 

5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Swamps, draining, local bills, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

Water, regulating for agric. purposes, art. 

1, § 7. 

Pr. 707. By Mr. Landreth . 687 

ASSEMBLY 

Adjournment, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 604. By Mr. Mandeville. 589 

Appro, bills, originating, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr, 168. By Mr. Pelletreau. 168 

Assemblymen: 

Appear’g as atty. certain cases, prohib., art. 

3, new §. 

Pr. 669. By Mr. Cobb. 653 

Districts, N. Y. City, number, fix, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 339. By Mr. Buxbaum. 335 























































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Districts, reapportion, art. 3, §§ 3-5; art. 

6, § 1; art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 396. By Mr. Betts. 389 

Districts, reapportioning, art. 10, § 6; 

art. 3, §>§ 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, and repeal § 7. 

Pr. 869. Legislative Organization Com. 722 
Districts, reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 697. Legislative Organization Com. 680 


Districts, reapportioning by legis., art. 3, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 704. By Mr. Haffen . 684 

Election, cumulative vot’g for, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 601. By Mr. Green. 586 

N. Y. City, dists., election, etc., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 602. By Mr. Green. 587 

Number, dists., terms, art. 3, §§ 2-4. 

Pr. 723. By Mr. Haffen. 693 

Number, dists., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 574. By Mr. Griffin. 559 

Number, dists., apportion’g, art. 3, § 5 new. 

Pr. 359. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 355 

Number, fixing, etc., art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 321. By Mr. Bunce. 317 

Number of, increasing, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 174. By Mr. Haffen. 174 

Number of, salary, terms, art. 3, §§ 1, 6-12, 

14, 15, 16, 20, 25; §§ 3, 4, 13 repeal. 

Pr. 232. By Mr. Kirk. 230 

Number, 75, term 2 years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 642. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 626 

Salary, increase to $3,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 48. By Mr. Griffin. 48 

Salary, $2,500, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 297. By Mr. Tuck. 294 

Salary, increasing, art. 3, § 6. 

, Pr. 835. By Legis. Organization Com.. 697 
Salary, $3,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 96. By Mr. Latson. 96 

Salary, $3,000, allowances, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 133. By Mr. Harawitz. 133 

Salary, $3,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 403. By Mr. Curran.. 396 

Terms, two-years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 47. By Mr. Griffin. 47 

Terms, two years, art. 3, § 2; art. 10, § 6. 

Pr. 246. By Mr. Lindsay. 244 

Terms, two years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 429. By Mr. Wadsworth. 417 

Terms, 2 years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 471. By Mr. Tanner. 459 

Terms, two years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 166. By Mr. Pelletreau. 166 

Terms, two-years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 32. By Mr. Wiggins. 32 

Terms, two years, salary, $2,500, art. 3, 

§§ 2, 6. 

Pr. 30. By Mr. Richards. 30 

Terms, 2 yrs., salary $3,000, art. 3, §§ 2, 6. 

Pr. 93. By Mr. Standart. 93 

Bills, pass., limit to 50 a week, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 083. By Mr. Westwood. 667 

Constitutionality, referendum, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

Impeachment by, convening for, art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com.. 696 
Impeachment of pub. officers, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 518 

Impeachm’t of judges and st. officers, art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 141 By Mr. R. B. Smith. 141 


Int. No. 

Impeachment of public officers, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 39. By Mr. Lincoln. 39 

Impeachment, extra session for, art. 4, § 4; 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 819. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 291 

Speaker, act as Governor, etc., art. 4, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 846. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 385 

Speaker, canal board, art. 5, repeal § 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 725 
Speaker, succession to office of, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 393. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 386 

Speaker, temporary, choosing, art. 3, § 10. 

Pr. 841. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 290 

State officers, seats, a c. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 


B 

Ballots. (See “ Elections.”) 

Bills, legislative. (See “Legislature.”) 
Bi-partisan election bds. (See “ Elections.”) 
Boilers pressure, supervision, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty. 488 

Bonds, etc., gift to cities, towns, etc., art. 8, 

§ 10. 

Pr. 108. By Mr. Bockes. 108 

Bonds, municipal, issue, regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

Bonds, pub. improv. maturity, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 

Bonds, serial, for state debts, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 714. By Mr. Austin. 509 

Bonds, ser., cities, cos., vil., art. 8, § 10, and 
new § 12. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Bonds, state, anticipation taxes, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 449. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 437 

Bonds, state debts, serial, art. 7, §§ 4, 11, 12. 

Pr. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 469 

Bonds, state, for pub. improv., art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 

Bonds, state, mimic., serial, art. 7, new § 4. 

Pr. 665. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 649 

Book-making, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 660. By Mr. Brackett. 644 

Bribery, art. 13, §§ 2, 3, 4, repeal. 

Pr. 485. By Mr. Leggett.473 

Bribery, enactments, etc., obtained by, void, 
art. 13, new, §§ 5, 6, 7. 

Pr. 63. By Mr. Buxbaum. 63 

Bridges, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr, Wickersham. 624 

Bridges, part of highway, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 442. By Mr. Heaton. 430 

Budget, appro, not included in, art, 4, § 9. 

Pr. 157. By IMr. E. N. Smith. 157 

Budget, state, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Budget, commission, state, art. 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 13. By Mr. C. H. Young. 13 

Budget, state, preparing, etc., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 156. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 156 

Budget, state, preparing, etc., art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Budget, state, providing for, etc., art. 3, 

§§ 21, 22; art.U, § 4. 

Pr. 470. By Mr. J, G. Saxe. 458 

Budget, state, provid. for, art. 4, § lO, new. 

Pr, 19. By Mr. Aiken. 19 

Budget, state, providing for, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 646. By Mr. Parsons. 630 





























































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Budget, state, providing for, art. 3, § 21. 

’Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709 

Budget, state, transmit to legis., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 444. By Mr. Meigs. 432 

Budget, transmit to legis., etc., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Buildings, bridges, appropriations for, art, 3, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Buildings, dangerous to health, taking, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister. 671 

Buildings, dept, of, art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Buildings, destroy, regul., certain areas, art. 1, 

§§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

Buildings,'zones, cities, art. 12, new §. 

^ Pr. 501. By Mr. Bayes. 489 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 686. By Mr. Bannister. 669 

Buildings, public, juris, public works div., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Buildings, state control engineering dept., art. 

5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Buildings, tax rate, art. 8, new § 9-a. 

Pr. 462. By Mr. Baldwin. 450 

Buildings, zones, municipalities, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Buildings, zones, etc., regul., art 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister. 670 

Bus lines, franchises, regul., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 581. By Mr. Mealy. 566 

Business corp’ns, regul., art. 8, new § 16. 

Pr. 180. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 180 

BANKING 

Banking and ins., div. of, art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. iBy Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Banking and insurance, division of, art 6, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. $axe. 694 

Banking, monied corporations, regul., art. 8, 

§ 4, and repeal §§ 5, 6, 7, 8. 

Pr. 486. By Mr. Leggett. 474 

Com’r of, appointment, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Dept, of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 

5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Div. of insurance and banking, established, 
art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 


Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Moneyed corp’ns, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 595. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 580 

Securities, munic., com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin.455 

Stocks, etc., dealing on margins prohibited, 
art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo. 387 

Stocks, etc., exchanges, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 596. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 581 

Superintendent of, election, etc., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 336. By Mr. O’Connor. 332 

Supervision of, state finance dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 


BUFFALO Int. No. 

Canals, Erie basin, sale, lease, art. 7, § 8. 

Pr. 531. By Mr. Clinton. 519 

Debt limit, water debts excluded, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 681. By Mr. Sanders. 665 

Debt lim., water debts, art. 8, § 10, and new 
§ 12. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Public franchises, condm., art. 1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Mr. M. Saxe. 674 

n 

Camp sites, forest. (See “Conservation.”) 

Capital punishm’t, abolishing, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 24. By Mr. Betts. 24 

Capital punishment, abol., art. 1, new § 7. 

Pr. 677. By Mr. Curran. 661 

Capital punishment, abolish., art. 1, new § 7. 

Pr. 118. By Mr. Bayes. 118 

Casualty Cos., stockh’rs, liability, art. 8, § 7. 

Pr. 143. By Mr. Doughty. 143 

Cemeteries, no tax, exemption, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 92. By Mr. Nixon. 92 

Census, state, taking, etc., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 230. By Mr. Foley. 228 

Census, state, abolishing, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 574. By Mr. Griffin. 559 

Certiorari, review removal of officials, art. 10, 

§ 1 and new §. 

Pr. 472. By Mr. F. Martin. 460 

Child welfare comm’n, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 553. By Mr. Ahearn. 538 

Children, courts for, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 579. By Mr. Clearwater. 564 

Children, courts for, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Children, educat’n of, st. function, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 525. By Mr. Schurman. 513 

Children, education of, state function, art, 9, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 820. By Education Com... 698 

Children, educ. of, state function, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 67. By Mr. Linde. 67 

Children, juris, domestic rel. ots., art. 6, new 
§ 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 443 

Children, juris, inf. cts., etc., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. } 542 

Children, juris, inf. local cts., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 388. By Mr. Angell. 381 

Cigarettes, tax, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 591. By Mr. Cullinan. 576 

Commerce and labor dept., estab., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. SmHh. 86 

Commerce and nav. com’r, art. 5, ’§ 3. 

Pr. 593. By Mr. Cullinan. 578 

Com’rs of deeds, legislators as, art. 3, § 7. 

Pr. 206. By Mr. Wiggins... 205 

Comp., appointed by Gov., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein.. 172 

Comptroller, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletreau. 222 

Comptroller, appointed by Gov., art. 4, § 4. 


art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 8, 12; art 10, § 9; 
art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal §§ 3, 4, 

7 and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 ' 

Comptroller, aud. and cont. dept., art. 5, §§ 

1-4: 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 



























































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Comptroller, canal board, art. 5, repeal § 5; 
new §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 725 
Comptroller, certif. anticipation of taxes, 
art. 7, § 2. 


Pr. 367. By Mr. Austin. 362 

Comptroller, copy of budget to, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709 

Comptroller, election of, art. 4, new; art. 5, 
new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Comptroller, excess compen., proliib., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Comptroller, fiscal sup., prisons, etc., art. 8, 

§ 17, new. 

Pr. 333. Br. Mr. Wadsworth. 329 

Comptroller, fiscal super., char, inst’ns, art. 8, 

§§ 11, 12, 13, 15. 

Pr. 331. By Mr. Wadsworth. 327 

Comptroller, fiscal super., state hosp., art. 8, 

§ 16, new. 

Pr. 332. By Mr. Wadsworth. 328 

Comptroller, Gov’s council, art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Comptroller, Gov. to appoint, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By ]Mr. Wadsworth. 418 

Comptroller, Gov. to appoint, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 

Comptroller, head of audit dept., art. 4, new; 

Qvi" TIPTU 

Pr. 555.’ By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Comptroller, head state audit dept., art 5, 

§ 1. 

• Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 694 

Comptroller, legis. counsel, appointing bd., 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 562. By Mr. Low. 547 

Comp., reduce excess direct tax, art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 346. By Mr. Wagner.. 342 

Comptroller, seat in legis., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 

Comptroller, sinking funds, appraisal, art. 7, 

§§ 2, 4, 5, 11, 12. 

Pr. 784. By Finance Com. 705 

Comptroller, state, 4-year terra, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 109. By Mr. Bockes. 109 

Comptroller, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Dooling. 134 

Comptroller, statement, to legis., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 428. By Mr. Wadsworth. 416 

Comptroller, term, repeal § 2, art. 5. 

Pr. 110. By Mr. Bockes. 110 

Comptroller, to be appointed by gov., art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 125 

Comptroller, supervise canal fund, art. 5, 

§ 5. 

Pr. 760. By Mr. Austin. 363 

Comptroller, supervise charitable inst’ns, art. 

8, §§ 11, 12, 13, 15, and new §. 

Pr. 663. ]3y Mr. Waterman. 647 

Conspiracies, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 613. By Mr. Dahm. 598 

Contempt, arrest, imprisonm’t for, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 59. By Mr. Buxbaum. 59 

Contractors, excess compen., prohib., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Contractors, pub., extra compen., prohib., art. 

3, § 28. 

Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness.. 36 


Int. No. 

Contractors, public, extra compen., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. 379 

Contractors, public, extra compensat’n, art. 3, 

§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6, § 15; 
art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr. Mereness. 380 

Contractors, public, extra compen., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 289 

Contractors, pub. work, employees, art. 3, 

§§ 26, 27 and new §; art. 10, § 2; art. 

12 , §§ 1 , 2 . 

Pr. 535. By Mr. Low. 313 

Contract'..., counties, supplies, art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 650. By Mr. Donnelly. 634 

Contracts, sale on margins, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo. 387 

Conventions, party. (See “Elections.”) 
Corrections and charities, div., state gov., 
art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Coroner, constitutional office, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 711. By County, Town & Village 

Officers Com. 691 

Corrections, dept, of, art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608.. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 


Corrections and char., dept, of, art. 5, §§ 

1-4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Corrections, division of char, and corrections,' 


art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Corrections and charities, division of, art. 5, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Correction, state bd. of, art. 8, § 11. 

Pr. 519. By Mr. Rosch. 507 

Corrupt practices, participant, testimony of, 
art. 13, new §§ 5, 6, 7. 

Pr. 63. By Mr. Buxbaum. 63 

Courts (miscellaneous): 

Claims court, abolishing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 353. By Mr. Angell. 349 

Claims court, abolishing, art. 6, §§ 1, 19 
and new §. 

Pr. 414. By Mr. Latson. 402 

Claims -court constit’l body, art. 6, § 16. 

Pr. 478. By Mr. Cobb. 466 

Claims court, continue, art. 6, § 15-a, new. 

Pr. 527. By Mr. Mandeville. 515 

Claims ct., inferior, local ct., judges terms, 
art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 480. By Mr. Cobb. 468 

Claims court, judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 479. By Mr. Cobb. 467 

Constitutionality of laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran. 421 

County cts., juris., etc., art. 6. § 14. 

Pr. 426. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 414 

County courts, juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 476 

County judge, surrogate, law practice, art. 

6 , §■ 20 . 

Pr. 526. By Mr. Nye. 514 

County cts., N. Y. City ct., judges, juris., 
art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 422. By Mr. C. H. Young. 410 

County, gen. sess., juris., etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr. C. H. Young. 251 

Courts of record, judges, appoint, art. 6, 
new §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams..485 






















































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113 


Courts (miscellaneous)— Continued: Int. 

District cts., cities, juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 

■District courts, justices, juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 255. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Domestic Bel., children, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 579. By Mr. Clearwater. 

Domestic Bel. cts:, 1st cl. cities, art. 6, 
new, § 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 

Gen. sess., N. Y. city, abol., art. 6, § 5. 

Pr. 7. By Mr. Olcott. 

Gen. sess., N. Y. Co., cont’d., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 170. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Impeachment, convening, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 731. By Legislative Powers Com... 
Impeachm’t, gov., lieut-gov., art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 137. By Mr. Bosch... 

Impeachm’t, members of, art*. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. B. B. Smith. 

Indian courts, abol., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 282. By Air. Lindsay. 

Indians, tribal courts, abol., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 799. By Indian Belations Com.... 
Inferior, local, abol., etc., art. 6, $ 18. 

Pr. 469. By Air. Wagner. 

Inferior local, judges, removal, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 311. By Air. Byan. 

Inferior local, judges, removal, art. 6, $ 11. 

Pr. 391. By Air. Cobb. 

Inferior local, juris., regul., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Air. Stimson. 

Inferior local, juris., regul., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 575. By Air. Wiggins.. 

Inferior local, juris., arL 6, § 18. 

Pr. 603. By Air. Mandeville. 

Inferior local, juris., regul., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 388. By Air. Angell.,. 

Inferior local, jurisdiction, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 305. By Air. E. N. Smith. 

Inferior local, juris, in county, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 256. By Air. Dunmore. 

Inferior local, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 250. By Air. Cobb. 

Inferior local, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 200. By Air. Bunce. 

Inferior local, spec, sessions, art. 6, §§ 17, 
22, 23. 

Pr. 163. By Air. Leggett. 

Inferior, estab. by legis., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 72. By Air. Barrett. 

Inferior local, children’s, domestic rel., 
county, surrogates, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Inferior, record cts., judges, removal, art. 
6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Air. Deyo. 

Inferior, uniform, merge sup. ct., art. 6, 
§§ 1-3, 5-7, 9, 12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Air. Westwood.. 

Local, abol., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 610. By Air. Parmenter. 

Local, territorial juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 107. By Air. Bockes. 

Limited juris., cities, estab., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 372. By Air. Sears. 

Alagistrates. local, etc., regul., art. 6, 
§§ 17, 18. 

Pr. 551. By Air. Brenner. 


Courts (miscellaneous)— Continued: Int. No. 

N. Y. City, merging, art. 6, §§ 14, 17. 

Pr. 216. By Mr. Steinbrink. 215 

N. Y. City, merging, art. 6, § 14. ' 

Pr. 628. By Air. Wickersham. 377 

N. Y. City, spec. ses. con., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 702. By Air. Wagner . 682 

Procedure, revising, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 437. By Air. Sargent...... 425 

Procedure, revising, art. 6, new, § 2-b. 

Pr. 185. By Air. Rodenbeck. 185 

Procedure, rules, regul., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 720. By Air. R. B. Smith. 690 

Rules, adoption of, art. 6, new § 2-a. 

Pr. 183. By Air. Rodenbeck. 183 

Rules, comm’n on, chairman, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 364. By Air. Wickersham. 359 

Rules, public’n; decis’ns, index, art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 280. By Air. Rodenbeck.277 

Rules, adoption of, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 22. By Air. Aiken. 22 

Special, limited juris., eliminate, art. 6. 

Pr. 265. By Mr. Reeves. 262 

Special sessions, abol.. art. 6, § 23. 

Pr. 324. By Air. Dunmore.320 

Special session, abol., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 459. By Air. Newburger. 447 

Special sessions, juris., art. 6, § 23, repeal. 

Pr. 460. By Air. Newburger. 448 

Surrogates, abol., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 587. By Mr. Tierney. 572 

Surrogates’ powers, etc., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 351. By Air. Heaton. 347 

Surrogates, terms, juris., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 443. By Air. AIcKean. 431 

Court, Supreme. (See “Supreme Court.**) 

CANALS 

Abandoned lands, structures, sale of, art. 7, 

§ ^ 

Pr. 222. By Air. Cobb. 159 

Appro, bills for main., art. 3, §§ 15, 20, 21, 

24. 

Pr. .342. Bv Air. A. E. Smith. 338 

Appropriations for, regul., art. 3, § 20. 

Pr. 854. Bv Finance Com. 710 

Canal Board, abol., juris, engineering dept., 
art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Air. Latson. 404 

Canal board, etc., art. 5, repeal § 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 725 
Canal board, to fix tolls, etc., art. 7, § 9. 

Pr. 340. By Air. Wiggins.. 345 

Canal fund comm’rs. Canal Bd. art. 5, § 5. 

Pr. 760. By Air. Austin. 363 

Commerce and nav. com., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. .503. By Air. Cullinan. 578 

Com’r of, canal board, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. Bv Air. Bernstein...^. 172 

Control of. art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Air. Landreth. 645 

Employees, appointment, etc., art. 5, § 3. 


Forest lands for new art; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

Lands for. taking, art. 7. § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Air. Dow. 370 

Lands for, taking, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Air. Bunce. 2l9 


No. 

561 

252 

564 

443 

7 

170 

695 

137 

141 

279 

707 

457 

307 

384 

542 

560 

588 

381 

301 

253 

256 

208 

163 

72 

718 

522 

611 

595 

107 

367 

536 






























































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Int. No. 

Property for, excess condemnation, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 617 

Property, terminals, disposing of, etc., art. 

7 § 8 

Pr. 845. By Canals Com..-. .. 710 

Property, sale, lease, proceeds, dispos’n, art. 

7, § 8 . 

Pr. 522. By Mr. Austin. 510 

Sale, lease, regul., art. 7, § 8 . 

Pr. 531. By Mr. Clinton.519 

Surplus waters, use of, art. 1 , § 10 . 

Pr. 817. By Mr. Cullinan. 575 

Water storage, forest preserve, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 570 

CHARITIES 

Bd. of, books, etc., pub. records, art. 8 , § 11. 

Pr. 90. By Mr. Kirby. 90 

Bd. of inspection, reformatories, etc., art. 8 , 

§ 11 . 

Pr. 519. By Mr. Rosch. 507 

Charities and corrections dept., art. 8 , §§ 11, 

12 . 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Charities and corrections, division of, art. 5, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 727. By Mv. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Charities and correction div., state gov., art. 

4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Department of, art. 5, repeal '§§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 
and 7; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Department of, estab., art. 8 , §§ 11, 13, 15; 
art. 8 , § 12, repeal; art. 5, repeal § 4. 

Pr. 653. By Mr. Hinman. 637 

Division of, estab., art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 498 

Liquor, damages by, aid poor to recover, art. 

1 , new §. 

Pr. 397. By Mr. Rhees. 390 


Poor, countv, town, powers, art. 3, §§ 26, 27; 
art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 853. County, Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 721 
State bd. of, appointed by Gov., art. 4, § 4; 
art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 8. § 12; art 10, § 

9; art. 11, §§ 4, 6: art. 5. repeal §§ 3, 

4, 7, and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 


Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 

State board, composition, powers, art. 8 , §§ 

11, 12, 13, 15, and new §. 

Pr. 663. By Mr. Waterman. 647 

State board of. organ., duties, powers, art. 8 , 

§§ 11, 12, 13, L5. 

Pr. 331. By Mr. Wadsworth. 327 

State Bd., 9 members, estab., art. 8 , §§ 11, 13, 

15;, art. 8 , § 12 and art. 5, § 4 re¬ 
pealed. 

Pr. 371. By Mr. IMandeville. 366 

State dept, of, estab., art. 5, § 2 . 

■ Pr. 86 . By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Taxes, no exemption, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 92. By Mr. Nixon. 92 

CITIES 

Assembly dists. in, certain, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 339. By Mr. Buxbaum. 335 

Bonds, etc., serial, art. 7, new § 4. 

Pr. 665. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 649 

Bonds, pub. improv., maturity, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 


Int. No. 

Boundaries, enlarge, referend’m, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 641. By Mr. Low. 625 

Buildings, height, zone, regul., art. 12, 
new §. 

Pr. 501. By Mr: Bayes. 489 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 686 . By Mr. Bannister . 669 

Buildings, zones, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister . 670 

Buildings, zones, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Charters, amend, by legis., art 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Charters, amending on petition of city, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 753. Legislative Powers Com. 700 

Charter bills, regul., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

City bills, return by Mayor, art. 12 , § 2 . 

Pr. 583. By Mr. Ostrander. 568 

City employees, hours of labor, art. 12 , § 1 . 

Pr. 201. By Mr. Winslow. 200 

City employees, vote for city officials, art. 2 , 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 670. By Mr. Green. 65 

City magistrates, removal, art. 6 , f 17. 

Pr. 311. By Mr. Ryan. 307 

Civil Serv. Ist class cities, exception, art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 736. By Mr. Unger. 136 

Condemnation, excess, prohibiting, art. 1 , J 7. 

Pr. 325. By Mr. Dunmore. 321 

Condemnation, just compensation, art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 4.53. By Mr. Frank. 441 

Condemnation, excess, pub. improv., art. 1, 

§§ 6 , 7. 

Pr. 512. Bv Mr. Parsons. 500 

Condemnation, power of, art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank.442 

Containing countv, countv officers, etc., urt. 

3, § 26; art. 12, §^2. 

Pr. 318. By Mr. Wiggins. ,.. 314 

Courts, limited juris., uniform, estab., an 6 , 

§ 18. 

Pr. 372. By Mr. Sears. 367 

Creation, gov’t reguL, art. 12 , § 1 . 

Pr. 797. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 254 

Debt limit, 1st cl. cities, water debts excluded, 
art. 8 , § 10 . 

Pr. 681. By Mr. Sanders. 665 

Debts, funded, maturing, art. 8 . new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 470 

Debts, serial bonds for, art. 8 , § 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com.'. 713 

Debts, sinking funds, taxes, etc., art. 8 , § 10. 

Pr. 423. By Mr. Wiggins....;. 411 

District cts., juris., art. 6 , § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 561 

District courts, justices, juris., art. 6 , § 17. 

Pr. 255. By Mr. Dunmore. 252 

Domestic rel. cts., 1st cl. cities, art. 6 , new 
§ 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 443 

Education board, appointment, art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 483. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 471 

Education bds., part State system, art. 9 , § 1 . 

Pr. 415. Bv Mr. Latson. 403 

Education boards, powers etc., art. 9 , new §. 

Pr. 757. By Education Com.\ . 704 
























































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Int. No. 

Election propositions, to spend money, art. 8, 


Pr. 35. By ;Mr. Mereness. 35 

Employees, rec’ng pension, art. 10, new § 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Excess compensation, proliib.. art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Franchise grants, perpetuity, prohibit, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 

Franchises, indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, § 

30 new. , 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low. 548 

Funded debts of, refund, etc., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 272 

General laws for, adopt own charter, art. 12, 

§§ 1-3, and new §§ 4, 6. 

Pr. <698. By Mr. Cobb. 650 

Health, use of forest preserve for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 10 

Health, use forest lands, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow.. .. 370 

Health, use forest preserve lands for, art. 7, 

§§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Highways, costs, apportioning, art. 7, § 13 new. 

Pr. 811. By Mr. Westwood. 479 

Home rule, art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 671. By ]Mr. Green. 655 

Home rule, art. 3, §§ 26, 27 and new §; art. 

10, § 2; art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 535. By Mr. Low. 313 

Home rule, adopt own charters, art. 12 new. 

Pr. 568. By Mr. Eisner. 553 

Home rule, granting, art. 12. 

Pr. 851. By Cities Com. 712 

Home rule, guaranteeing, art. 12. 

Pr. 335. By Mr. Franchot. 331 

Home rule, optional system, art. 12. §§ 1-3, 
and new §§ 4-6. 

Pr. 796. By Mr. Franchot. 662 

Home rule, power of, art. 12. § 1. 

Pr. 724. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 511 

Home rule, providing, art. 12, § 13. 

Pr. 629. By Mr. Weed. 613 

Inferior local cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 603. By Mr. Mandeville. 588 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § IS. 

Pr. 305. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 301 

Labor, public work, 8-hr. day, art. 1, nG^v §. 

Pr. 401. By Mr. Curran. 394 

Lands, taking, excess conde’n. art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 617 

Lands under water, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

Lands, use of, regul., power to, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 285. By Mr. Mann. 282 

Laws affecting, to be general, etc., art. 12, 

§§ 2, 3. 

Pr. 709. By Mr. Fobes. 689 

Legislative bodies, elec, dists, 1st cl. cities, 
art. 3, neAV § 4. 

Pr. 507. By Mr. Foley. 495 

Local court, transfer actions to, art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 476 

Local gov’t, powers, art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 381. By Mr. Mann. 374 

Magistrates, local cts., regul., art. 6, §§ 17, 18. 

Pr. 551. By Mr. Brenner. 636 


Int. No.. 

Moneys of, expding, laws requir., art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 693. By Mr. Berri . 676< 

Motor bus lines, franchises, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 581. By Mr. Mealy. 566" 

IMunicipal civil serv. com’ns, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 673. By Mr. Rhees. 657 

Municipal court, state, art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves. 308- 

Municipal prop., outside limits, tax, art. 3, 
new § 30. i 

Pr. 441. By Mr. Heaton. 429^ 


Municipal corp., outside limits, tax, art. 3, 


new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 49? 

Officers, nominat’n, etc., art. 2, new § 7. 

Pr. 366. By Mr. Low. 361 


Officers, pay, change of, during term, art. 3, 
§ 28. 


Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness.. 36 

Officials, election not provided for, art. 10, §* 2. 

Pr. 211. By Mr. Sanders. 210 

Officials, extra comp., prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 289 

Officials, extra pay, prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. 379 

Officials, pay, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, 

§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6, § 15; 
art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr. Mereness. 380 

Officials, with pensions, limit salary, art. 10, 
new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

Officials, removal, review by certiorari, art. 

10, § 1 and new §. 

Pr. 472. By Mr. F. Martin. 460 

Officials, whose election not provided for, art. 

10, § 2. 

Pr. 146. By Mr. M. Saxe. 146 

Opt’l city government plans, art. 12, §§ 1-3. 

Pr. 187. By Mr. Sanders. 187 

Payroll laws, mandatory, prohib., art. 3, new §, 

Pr. 463. By Mr. Baldwin. 451 

Pensions, actuarial basis for, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 703. By Mr. Low. 683 

Property, dan. to health, etc., taking, art. 

1, new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister .671 

Projerty, for public use, taking, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 705. By Mr. Blauvelt . 685 

Public franchises, condemn., art. 1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Mr. M. Saxe. 674 

Securities, com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

Self-government of, guaranteeing, art. 12, 

§§ 1-3; art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner. 68 

Self-government, guaranteeing, art. 12. 

Pr. 283. By Mr. J. L. O’Brian. 280 

Stocks, bonds, gift to city, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 108. By Mr. Bockes. 108 

Streets, grade change damage, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck . 597 

Streets, etc., open., neces., dam’s, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 326. By Mr. Ryan... 322 

Taxation, pub. prop., exempt, art. 3, new § 24-a. 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619 

Tajfes, local, exemp’t, abolish., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 322. By Mr. Meigs. 318 

Taxes, local, state prop., exempt, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

































































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Int. No. 

Water supply, forest lands for, new art; art. 


7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

Water supply, forest lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Water supply, state lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 

CIVIL CASES 

Actions CO. cts., N. i. city ct., etc., art. 6,. 

§ 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr C H. Young. 251 

Actions in inferior local cts., juris., art. 0, 

§ 18 

Pr. 106. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 106 

Arrests, limiting, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 59. By Mr. Buxbaum. 59 

Arrests, civil actions, prohib., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 117. By Mr. Latson. 117 

Arrests, restricting, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 361. By Mr. Brenner. 357 

Civil code bill, veto. ct. of app., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 638. By Mr. Baldwin. 622 

Civil, judicial, statistics, art. 6, § 21. 

Pr. 466. By Mr. Baldwin.... 454 

Civil practice act, providing for, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Jury, eliminating, certain cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 281. By Mr. Rodenbeck..... 278 

Juries, number, may be abol., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 295. By Mr. Leggett. 292 

Jury, number, verdict, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 235. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 233 

Jury of 6 instead of 12. art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 43. By Mr. Brenner. 43 

Jury trials, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

‘Pr. 198. Bv Mr. Baldwin. 197 

Jury trial, waiving, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

‘Pr. 189. By Mr. Pelletreau. 188 

Jury, to be composed of six or more, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 45. Bv Mr. Bayes. 45 

Jury trials limitation by legis. art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 132. By Mr. Weed. 132 

Jury, Avaiving. art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 271. By Mr. Mann. 268 

Justice of peace, dist. cts.. juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 561 

Military tribunals, juris., art, 1, § 4. 

Pr, 435. By Mr. Curran. 423 

Procedure, comm’n to revise, art. 3, new §, 

Pr. 437. By Mr. Sargent. 425 

Procedure, fixing, art. 6. neAV §. 

Pr. 720, By Mr. R. B. Smith. 690 

Venue, change, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wicker.sham. 624 

Verdict bv five-sixths of jury, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 408. By l\Tr. WestAvood. 116 

Verdict, by five-sixths of jury. art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 207. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 206 

Verdict, number required for, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 218. Bv Mr. Avickersham. 217 

Verdict, three-fourths of jury, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 354. By Mr. Angell. 350 

CIVIL SERVICE 

Appointments, promotions, A'eterans pref., 
abol., art, 5. § 9. 

Pr. 138. By Mr. Quig?. 138 

Bi-partisan state com., except Ist cl. cities, 
art. 5, « 9. 

Pr. 736. By Mr. Unger. 136 


Int. No. 

City employees) hours of labor, art. 12, § 1. 


Pr. 201. By Mr. Winslow. 200 

Commission, appointm’t by Gov., etc., ncAV §. 

Pr. 239. By Mr. Donovan. 237 

Com. on, constit’l body, poA\ieirs, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 673. By Mr. Rhees. 657 ‘ 

Competitive positions; removals, protection 
against, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 142. By Mr. Steinbrink. 142 

Conservation Dept., employees, neAv art; art. 

7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. Bv Conservation Com. 708 

Conserv. Avater comm’rs, appointm’ts, art. 5, 

ncAV §§ 10, 11. 

Pr. 221. By Mr. Bunce. 220 

Dept, of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; neAV art. 

5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 


Division of, state goA^, art 4 neAv; art. 5 new. 


Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Division of, estab., art 4 neAv; art. 5 neAv. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.... 498 

Division of, executive branch, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Elect’n officers, competitive exam., art. 2, § 6, 

Pr. 238. By Mr. Bernstein. 236 

EligibilitA*, U. S. citizens onh", art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 840. By Mr. A. E.‘Smith. 723 

Employees in, rece-iving pensions, art. 10, new 
§ 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Employees, orgaVns, mem’ship in, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 284. By Mr. Adams. 281 

Forest, comm’r of, appointments, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 208. By Mr. McKean. 207 

Forests, comm’rs of, appointments, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 154. By Mr. Dunlap. 154 

Forest, commissioner of, appointments, art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 25. By Mr. Whipple. 25 

Forest commissioner, appointm’ts, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 10 

Forest com’r, appointments, art. 7, §§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. Bv Mr. C. H. \oung. 71 

Munic. com'ns, abol; state com., poAvers, art. 

5, § 9. 

Pr. 674. By Mr. Rhees. 658 

Officials, compen., fixing, etc., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 268. By Mr. Mann. 265 

Pensions, Civil Avar A’eterans, art. 5, neAV §. 

Pr. 261. By Mr. Green. 258 

Pensions, state employees, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 301. By Mr. M. Saxe. 297 

Preference, veterans, art. 5. § 9. 

Pr. 630. By Mr. Weed. 614 

Preference, veterans, etc., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 4.39. By Mr. C. Nicoll.. 427 

Preference. A^eterans. abol,. art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 520. By Mr. Quigg. 508 

Preference, veter’ns, tribunals, etc., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 287. By Mr. Mann. 284 

Pressure, vessels, reguL, dept, for, art. 3, 
neAv §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty.. 488 

Promotion, preference, after 10 years service, 
art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 658. By INIr. McKean. 642 




























































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117 


Int. 

Removals, comp, class, review of, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 657. By Mr. McKean. 

Removals, competitive class, regiil., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 543. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Supervision of, by state finance dept., art. 5, 

§ 2 . 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Veterans, etc., pref., regul., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 355. By Mr. Wood. 

Veterans, preference, regul., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 29. By Mr. Olcott. 

Veterans, protection vs. removal, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 266. By Mr. Heyman. 

Veterans, Spanish war, preference, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 53. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Veterans, vol. firemen, preference, art. 4, § 9. 
Pr. 77. By Mr. S. K. Phillips. 


CLAIMS AGAINST STATE 

Approval, power of, delegating, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 738. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Contract debts vs. state, accrual, art. 7, § 6. 

Pr. 343. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 

Court of, abolish., art. 6, §§ 1, 19 and new §. 

Pr. 414. By Mr. Latson. 

Court of, composition, pay, etc., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 56. By Mr. K. B. Smith. 

Court of, constit’l body, art. 6, § 15-a new. 

Pr. 527. By Mr. Mandeville. 

Court of, constit’l body, art. 6, § 16. 

Pr. 478. By Mr. Cobb. 

Court of, continued, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Court of, judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr.‘479, By Mr. Cobb. 

Court of, judges, terms, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 480. By Mr. Cobb. 

Court of, merg. sup. ct., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 5-7, 9, 
12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood.'.. 

Determin., legis. to provide for, art. 7, new §. 
Pr. 320. By Mr. Ostrander. 

Local bills, re, art. 3. 

Pr, 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 
Official referees," determina’n by, art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Pavment, restricting, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 808. By Legislative Powers Com. .. 

Private, local, bills for, prohib., art. 3, § 19. 

Pr. 732. By Mr. Tanner. 

Supreme ct., exclusive jurisdiction, art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 15. By Mr. Brackett. 

Sup. ct., juris., state liab., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 353. By Mr. Angell. 


CONDEMNATION 

Commissioners of, abolish,, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 27. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Commissioners of, etc., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 465. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Excess condemnation, prohibit, art. 1, § 7. 
Pr. 325. By Mr. Dunmore. 


Int. No. 

Judges of, providing for, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 169. By Mr. Brenner. 169 

Procedure, N. Y. Citv, regul., art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Property, cond’m’t’n of. (See “Property.”) 


CONSERVATION 


Advisory board, of, estab., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell. 569 

Commission, abol., juris, engineering dept., 
art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Commission on, constit’l body, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 586. By Mr. Angell. 571 

Commissioner of, appointm’t, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 

2, 5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Comm’r of, appointm't, powers, art. 5, new 

§§ 10 , 11 . 

Pr. 221. By Mr. Bunce. 220 

Commissioners of, camp sites, timber, etc., 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Com’r of, dead timber, roads, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 208. By Mr. McKean. 207 

Com’r of, dead timber, camp sites, etc., art. 

7, §§ 7, 7^a. 

Pr. 71, By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Com’r of. Gov. appt., 4 yrs., art. 5, new § 10. 

Pr. 129. By Mr. Austin. 129 

Department of. art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Dept, of, juris, public wks. div., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Dept, of, constit’l bodj', etc., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 438 

Dept, of, reorganize, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 


Department of, 9 comm’rs, new art; art. 7, 
§ 7 repeal. 


Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

Fish and game com., 3'members, estab., art. 

7, new § 7-a. 

Pr. 121. By Mr. Baldwin. 121 

Forest preserve lands, sale of, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 247. By Mr. Austin. 123 

Forest preserve, timber, sale, etc., roads, art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 84. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 84 

Forest preserve, camps, roads, forestation, 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 37. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 37 

Eorest and Water Com., estab. 3 members, art. 

7, § 7- 

Pr.’492. By Mr. Dow. 480 

Forests, 3 com’rs of, timber, camp sites, art. 

7, § 7- 

Pr. 154. By Mr, Dunlap. 154 

Forests, com’r; dead timber, camps, etc., art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 10 

Forests, condemn’n of, etc., art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 558. By Mr. Parsons. 543 

Forests, dead timber, camp sites, water stor¬ 
age, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 570 


No. 

641 

528 

86 

351 

29 

263 

53 

77 

214 

339 

402 

56 

515 

466 

718 

467 

468 

611 

316 

696 

463 

701 

550 

15 

349 

27 

453 

321 





















































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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. No. 

Forests, dead timber, camp sites, etc., art. 7, 


§ 7. 

Pr. 25. By Mr. Whipple. 25 

Forests, water storage, etc., regul., art. 7, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

Forests, water supply, regul., art. 7, § 7. • 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219- 

Lands under water, grants, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 561. By Mr. Low. 546 

License fees, penalties, proceeds, art. 7, new. 

§ 7-a. ' 

Pr. 647. By Mr. Leary. 631 

Munic. water sup., state lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 

State Board of, establish, etc., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

Supervision of, % interior dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86 . By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Water power, taking property for, art. 1, § . 6 . 

Pr. 406. By Mr. Baldwin. 248 

Water, water pow., use of, regul., art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 487. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 475 

Waters, pollution, injury to fish, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 299. By Mr. Bannister. 295 

Water, power sites, grant in perpetuity, art. 

1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce. 348 

Water storage, etc., lands for, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 707. By Mr. Landreth. 687 

Waters, surplus, leases of, art. 1, § 10. 

Pr. 817. By Mr. Cullinan...... 575 


CONSTITUTION 

Amendments, consider extra sessions legis., 
art. 4, § 4; art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 819. By Mr. R. B. Smith.I. .. 291 

Amendm’ts, initiate by pet., art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 571. By Mr. Eisner. 556 

Amendm’ts, initiate by pet., art. 14, new § 2, 

Pr. 554. By Mr. Foley. . . 5.39 

Amendm’ts to, by initiative, referendum, art. 

3, new §. 

Pr. 498. I3y Mr. Dahm. 486 

Amendments, not oftener than once, 5 yrs., 
art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 52. By Mr. Dunmore. 52 

Amendm’ts. pass, by one legis., art. 14, §§ 1 , 2. 

Pr. 236. By Mr. Low. 234 

Amendments, passage by legis., art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 33. By Mr. Austin. 33 

Amendm’ts, ratific’n by voters, art. 14, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 260. By Mr. Cobb. 257 

Amendments, submission, time of, art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 214. By Mr. Ahearn. 213 

Amendments, submitted by legis., vote upon, 
art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 94. By Mr. Standart. 94 


Amendts., submtg., vote upon; woman suff.. 

Art. 14, §§ 1, 2, 3 and new §. 

Pr. 855. By Future Amendments Com. 715 
Amendments, vote upon; woman suffrage, 
art. 14, n 1, 2, 3, 4. 

Pr. 144. By Mr. Marshall. 144 

Const’l Convention, delegates, art. 14, § 2. 

Pr. 402. By Mr. Curran. 395 

Const’lity, ct. of app. opin., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 559. Bv Mr. Parsons. 544 


Int. No. 


Constitutionality of laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran. 421 

Constitutionality of laws, determine, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 147. By Mr. Shipman. 147 

Constitutionality of laws, deter., art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 310. By Mr. McKinney. 306 

Const’lity, laws, etc., referendum, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

Const’litv of laws, art. 3, § 16. 

Pr. 743. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 579 

Const’lity of laws, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 606. By Mr. Mandeville. 591 

Convention, referendum, every 10 years, art. 

14, § 2; repeal §§ 1 and 3. 

Pr. 424. By Mr. Barnes. 412 

Delegates to Conv., election of, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 135. By Mr. Low. 135 

Final draft of Revised Constitution as whole. 

(See page 89.) 

New const., taking effect, date of, art. 15, § 1. 

Pr. 145. By Mr. Marshall. 145 

Woman suffrage amendm’t, women vote upon, 
art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 389. By Mr. Dunmore. 382 

Woman suffrage, amendment submitted by 
legislature, art. 14, § 3. 

Pr. -. By Suffrage Com. 703 

Woman suffrage amendments. (See “Elections”) 

CORPORATIONS 

Actions by, agt., members’ rights, art. 8, § 3. 

Pr. 516. By Mr. Shipman. 504 

Business corp’ns, stock, etc., regul., art. 8, 
new § 16. 

Pr. 180. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 180 

Directors, election, cumulative voting, art. 8, 

§ 3. 

Pr. 664. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 648 

Juris, inf. local cts., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 603. By Mr. Mandeville. 588 

Monied, regul., art. 8, § 4, and repeal §§ 5, 6, 

7, 8. 

Pr. 486. By Mr. Leggett. 474 

Monopolies, etc., prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 504. Bv Mr. Sargent. 492 

Private, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

Public property, use of, regul., art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com....!.. 720 
Stock corp’ns, directors, election, art. 8, § 3. 

Pr. 122. By Mr. Marshall. 122 

Stock, produce, markets, incorp’n, art. 8, § 4, 
new. 

Pr. 395. By Mr. Deyo. 333 

Stockholders, liability, insurance, banking, 
corporations, art. 8, § 7. 

Pr. 143. By Mr. Doughty. 143 

Stockholders’ liability for labor, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 341. By Mr. Bayes.. 337 


Stocks, etc., sale on margins prohib., art. 1 S 9 
Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo.. . 


COUNTIES 

Bonds, pub. improv., maturPy, art. 8, new S. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 

Boundaries, enlarging, etc., art. 3, new S. 

Pr. 641. By Mr. Low. 


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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 119 


Int. No. 

Condemn’n, just compens., art. 1, § 6 

' Pr. 453. By Mr. Frank.'. 441 

Coroner, to be constit’l office, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 711. By County, Town & Village 

Officers Com. G 91 

County clerks, registrars, titles, register, art. 

10, new §. 

Pr. 60. By Mr. Coles. 60 

County courts, judges, juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 422. By Mr. C. H. Young. 410 

County ct. judges, practicing law, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 104. By Mr. Tierney. 104 

County ct., merge munic. cts., art. 6. 

Pr. 265. By Mr. Reeves. 262 

County cts., juris., art. 6", § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbieck. 476 

County cts., juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 685. By Mr. Lincoln. 608 

County courts, juris., etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 426. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 414 

County courts, juris., increase, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

County cts., merge sup. Ct., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 

5-7, 9, 12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By ]Mr. Westwood. 611 

County cts., N. Y. City, abol., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 628. By Mr. Wickersham. 377 

County courts, N. Y. City, abol. art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

’’■‘untv courts. *N. Y. city, merging, art. 6, 

'§§ 14, 17. 

Pr. 216. By Mr. Steinbrink. 215 

County debts, sinking funds, taxes, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 423. By Mr. Wiggins. 411 

County employees, vote for cty officers, art. 2, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 670. By Mr. Green. 654 

County judge, Hamilton co., qualific’ns, art. 6, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 258. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 255 

Countv judges, addit’l, legis. may create, art. 

>). § 14. 

Pr. 61. By Mr. Frank. 61 

Countv judges, election, county cts., etc., 

■ art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 152. By Mr. C. H. Young. 152 

County judges, law practice, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 526. By Mr. Nye. 514 

CountV judge, pay, change during term, art. 6, 

■§ 15 . 

Pr. l.)l. By Mr. Burkan. 151 

Countv judges, practice law, referee, art. 6, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander. 273 

Countv judges, regul. by legislature, art. 6, 

§ 14. 

Pr. 14. By Mr. C. H. Young. 14 

County judges, surr., salary, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 577. By Mr. Rosch... • 562 

Countv judges, surrogates, qualif., etc., art. 6, 

§20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 224 

County officers, compen., sal. only, art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 89. By^r. jiirbv.. 89 

County officers,'“elec., terms, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 609. Bv Mr. Parmenter.594 

County officers, elec., terms, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 621. By Mr. Sears. 606 


Int. No. 

County officers, removal, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 805. By Co’ty, Tn & Vil. Of. Com. 717 
County officers, terms, removal, certain 


counties, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 435 

County officers, whose election not provided 
for, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 146. By Mr. M. Saxe. 146 

County within city, officers, etc., art. 3, § 26; 
art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 318. By Mr Wiggins. 314 

Creation, gov’t, cty. managers, etc., art. 10, 

§§ 1 , 2 . 

Pr. 178. Py Mr. L. M. :\lartin. 178 

Debts, funded, maturing, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 470 

Debts, ser. bonds for. Art. 8, § 10, new § 12. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com... 713 

District attys., terms, etc., certain counties, 
art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 229. By Mr. Newburger. 227 

Election, proposition to spend money, art. 8, 

§ 10 . 

Pr. 35. By Mr. Mereness. 35 

Employees, receiv. pension, art. 10, new § 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Franchise grants, perpetuity, prohib., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 

Fran., indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, § 30 new. 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low.•. 548 

Funded debts of, refund, etc., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 272 


Government of, form, chang., art. 3, §§ 26, 27; 
art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 721 
Government of, optional plans, art. 3, §§ 26, 

27 and new §. 


Pr. 726. By Mr. Barrett.. 462 

Government of, optional plan, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 539. By Mr., Coles. 524 

Grade changes, dam., compen., art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck. 597 

Hamilton, legis. may not abolish, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 321. By Mr. Bunce. 317 

Health, use forest lands, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

Health, use of forest preserve for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 10 

Health, use forest preserve lands for, art. 7, 

§§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Highways, appor. state money, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 438. By Mr. Wagner. 426 

High., bonds, apport., art. 7, § 13 new. 

Pr. 490. By Mr. Sanders. 478 

High., cost, apport., art. 7, §§ 4. 11, 12. 

Pr. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith.. 469 

High, dc-i'+s. c^ntrib. to. art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 533. By Mr. Lincoln. 521 

High, state moneys for, apport., art. 7, new 
§ 13. 

Pr. 837. By Mr. Blauvelt.. 31 

Highwavs. state moneys; apportioning, art. 7, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 360. By Mr. Angell. 356 

Home rule. art. .3, §§ 26:, 27, and new §; art. 

10. § 2; art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 535. By Mr. Low.. 


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Int. No. 

Hospitals, forest lands fon, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Inferior cts., magistrates, etc., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 106. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 106 

Inf. local cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 575. By Mr. Wiggins. 560 

Inferior local cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 256. By Mr. Dunmore. 253 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr 305. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 301 

Inferior local cts., juris., regul., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 388. By Mr. Angell. 381 

Jurors com’r, each county, art. 10, new §. 

Pr. 600.. By Mr. Green. 585 

Labor, public work, 8-hour day, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 401. By Mr. Curran. 394 

Lands under water, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

Laws affecting, N. Y. City, mayor’s approval, 
art. ’12, § 2. 

Pr. 380. By Mr. Mann. 373 

Liquor, damage, fund to enforce rights, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 397. By Mr. Rhees. 390 

Local legislative power, granting, art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
N. Y. City, single co., art. 10, § 1 and new §; 
art. 12, § 3. 

Pr. 461. By Mr. Baldwin.•.. 449 

Officers, election not provided for, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 323. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 319 

Officers, nomination, etc., art. 2, § 7 new. 

Pr. 366. By Mr. Low. 361 

Officials, pay, changing during term, art. 3, 

§ 28. 

Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness. 36 

Officials, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 289 

Officials, extra pay, prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. 379 

Officials, pay, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, 

§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6, § 15; 
art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr: Mereness. 38# 

Officials, with pens., limit sal., art. 10, new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

Officials, rem., certiorari review, art. 10, § 1, 
and new §. 

Pr. 472. By Mr. F. Martin. 460 

Op. forms of govt., providing, art. 3, §§ 26, 

27 repeal; art. 10, §§ 1, 2 and 2 new §§. 

Pr. 203. By Mr. Barrett. 202 

Payroll laws, mandat’y, prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 463. By Mr. Baldwin. 451 

Peace justices, masters of co. ct., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 114. By Mr. Kirby. 114 

Pensions, actuarial basis for, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 703. By Mr. Low . 683 

Property, damage, determine in county, art 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 320. By Mr. Ostrander. 316 

Public defenders, election, etc., art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 219. By Mr. Shipman. 218 

Records, supt. of, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 456. By Mr. Reeves. 444 

Securities, com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin.. 455 


Ipt. No. 


Senate, assembly, districts, art. 10, § 6; 
art. 3, §'§ 1-5, and repeal §§ 7-8. 

Pr. 8'69. By Legis. Organization Com.. 722 
Senate districts, boundaries, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 230. By Mr. Foley. 228 

Senate dists., number in county, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 302. By Mr. Bernstein. 298 

Senate dists., number in county, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 722. By Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 673 

Senate dists., num. in any co., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 697. By Legis. Organization Com.. 680 
Senators, maxi. num. to county, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 704. By Mr. Haffen. 684 

Sheriffs, may succeed themselves, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 57. By Mr. Kirby. 57 

Sheriffs, may succeed themselves, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 329. By Mr. Dunmore. 325 

Stocks, bonds, gift to county, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 103. By Mr. Bockes. 108 

Supervisors, delegating powers to, art. 3, § 27. 

Pr. 291. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 288 

Super., number, election, art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 538. By Mr. Coles. 523 

Supervisors, powers; county comptrollers, 
estab., art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 115. By Mr. Kirby. 115 

Supervisors, as county officers, art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 12. By Mr. C. H. Young. 12 

Supervisors, powers, cty. compts., art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 650. By Mr. Donnelly. 634 

Sup. ct. com’rs, certain counties, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 464. By Mr. Baldwin... 452 

Surrogates, abol., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 587. By Mr. Tierney. 572 

Surrogates, age limit 72 yrs., art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 493. By Mr. Steinbrink. 481 

Surrogates, court in other counties, art. 6, 

§ 15. 

Pr. 351. By Mr. Heaton. 347 

Tax officials, appointm’t, election, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 385. By Mr. M. Saxe. 378 

Taxation, public prop., exempt, art. 3, new 
§ 24-a. 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619’ 

Taxes, dept, assessm’t and colltn., art 10, § 2. 

Pr. 202. By Mr. Barrett. 201 

Territory, annexing, referendum, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 411. By Mr. Coles. 39^ 

Trial jus. of peace, elect, art. 6. § 17. 

Pr. 578. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 563 

Within city, assembly dists., art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 339. By Mr. Buxbaum. 335 

COURT OF APPEALS 

Abol., merge app. div., art. 6, § 7. 

Pr. 605. By Mr. Mandeville. 590 

Apportionment by legis., review, art. 3, new 
§ 5. 

Pr. 359. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 355 

Appeals to, regul., art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 160. By Mr. Cobb. 160’ 

Chief judge, ch’mn ct., rules com’n, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 364. By Mr. Wickersham. 359 

Chief judge, convene impeachment court, 
art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 731. By Legislative Powers Com... 695 
Chief judge, member bd. of pardons, art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 237. By Mr. Bernstein. 235 

Chief judge, veto code bill, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 63'8. By Mr. Baldwin. 622 




























































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Int. Xo. 


Composition of, salaries, etc., art. 6, § 7. 

Pr. 409. By Mr. Fobes. 

Constit’l amend., vote, review of, art, 14, §§ 1. 
2, 3, 4. 

Pr. 144. By Mr. Marshall. 

Continuing, etc., art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves. 

Enlarging, etc., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 5-7, 9, 12, 14- 
20 22 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood. 

Enlarging, include app. div. judges, art. 6, §§ 
2, 7. 

Pr. 457. By Mr. Bayes. 

Judges, age limit, extra pay, etc., art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 493. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Judges, appoint, regul., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams... 

Judges, as official referee, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 190. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Judges of, appointed by Gov., art. 6, §§ 7, 8. 

Pr. 199. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 

Judges, designation by sup. ct., art. 6, §§ 1, 
2, 4, 7, 12; § 8 repeal. 

Pr. 231. By Mr. Kirk. 

Judges, election, odd numbered years, art. 6, 
§§ 4, 8; art. 10, § 5. 

Pr. 680. By Mr. Sears. 

Judges, fix court practice, rules, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 720. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Judges, Gov. to nominate cand., art. 6, § 10. 

Pr. 622. By Mr. Sears. 

Judges, members impeach’t court, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 

Judges, nomination of, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 20. By Mr. Aiken. 

Judges, impeachment of, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Judges, practice of law by, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 104. By Mr. Tierney. 

Judges of, qualific’ns, prac. law, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander. 

Judges, qualifis’ns, practice law, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 

Judges, re-electing, art. 6, § 10. 

Pr. 313. By Mr. Brenner. 

Judges, removal, etc., art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 391. By Mr. Cobb. 

Judges, retired, official referees, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Judges, sep. elections for, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 511. By Mr. Parsons. 

Judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Mr. Deyo. 

Judges, removal, convene legis., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com.. 
Judges, vacancies, filling, art. 6, § 8. 

Pr. 514. By Mr. Shipman. 

Judges, vacancies, filling, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 556. By Mr. Stimson. 

Jurisdiction, of app. div., etc., art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 458. By Mr. Bayes. 

Juris., questions of fact and law, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 440. By Mr. Wiggins. 

Jury duty, exemptions, rules, art. 3, § 30, new. 

Pr. 314. By Mr. Brenner. 

Laws, constitutionality of, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 147. By Mr. Shipman. 

Laws, constitutionality of, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran. 


274 

144 

308 

611 

445 
481 
485 
189 
198 

229 

664 

690 

607 

518 

20 

141 

104 

273 

224 

309 
384 
463 
499 
522 
696 
502 
541 

446 
428 

310 
147 
421 


Int. Xo. 

Legislative counsel, appoint’g bd., art. 3, new §. 


Pr. 562. By Mr. Low. 547 

Merging in supreme court, art. 6, §§ 1-13. 

Pr. 306. By Mr. Gladding.. 302 

Opinions of, for Gov., legis., new §. 

Pr. 9. By Mr. Donnelly. 9 

Opinion of, requiring, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 559. By Mr. Parsons. 544 

Reorganization of, art. 6, §§ 2, 4, 7, 8. 

Pr. 26. By Mr. Sheehan. 26 

Reorganizing generally, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Special, trial terms, desig, justices, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 315. By Mr. Sargent. 311 

Take evidence, etc., art. 6, new § 9-a. 

Pr. 356. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 352 


CRIMINAL CASES 
Appeal, matter of right, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 506. By Mr. Harawitz. 494 

Appeals by people, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 652. By Mr. F. Martin. 636 

Appeals, to court of appeals, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Bribery, art. 13, §§ 2, 3, 4, repeal. 

Pr. 485. By Mr. Leggett. 473 

Capital punishment, abolish, art. 1, new § 7. 

Pr. 118. By Mr. Bayes. 118 

Capital punishment, abol., art. 1, new § 7. 

Pr. 677. By Mr. Curran. 661 

Court of crim. appeals, art. 6, § 6, new. 

Pr. 21. By Mr. Aiken. 21 

Crimes, answering for, proc, rights, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 11 

Crimes, answering for, self-incrim., etc., art. 1, 

§ 6. 

Pr. 270. By Mr. Mann. 267 

Crimes, answering for, indictment, art. 1, 

§ 6. 

Pr. 337. By Mr. Coles. 333 

Crimes answering for, proceed’gs, rights, art. 

1, § 6. 

Pr. 373. By Mr. Sears. 368 

Criminal charge, by inform’n, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 473. By Mr. F. Martin. 461 

Crim. judicial statistics, art. 6, § 21. 

Pr. 466. By Mr. Baldwin. 454 

Death, judgm’t of, appeal of right, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 160. By Mr. Cobb. 160 

Death Penalty, abolishing, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 24. By Mr. Betts. 24 

Delinquents, etc., inf. cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Extradition, habeas corpus, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 177. By Mr. Dunmore. 177 

Felonv, witness without state, testimony of, 

" art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 358. By Mr. Kirby. 354 

Grand jury, right to, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 619. By Mr. Franchot. 604 

Guilty plea, judgment by magis., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 309. By ]Vrr. Kirby. 305 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 575. By Mr. Wiggins. 560 

Juries, to fix punishment, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 240. By Mr. Griffin. 238 

Juries, number, waiving, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 295. By Mr. Leggett. 292 


































































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Int. No. 

Juries, trial by, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 218. By Mr. Wickersham. 217 

Juries, trial by, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 374. By Mr. Sears. 369 

Juries, waiv’g, except capital cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 271. By Mr. Mann. 268 

Juries, waiving, verdict, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 235. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 233 

Jury, 6 or more, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 45. By Mr. Bayes. 45 

Jury trial, deft, may waive, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 408. By Mr. Westwood. 116 

Jury trial, right to, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 398. By Mr. Curran. 391 

Jury trial, waiving, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 139. By Mr. Pelletreau. 188 

Justice of peace, dist. cts., juris., art. 6 , § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 561 

Juvenile delinquents, laws for, art. 6 , new § 24. 

Pr. 553. By Mr. Abeam. 538 

Libel, art. 1, § 8 . 

Pr. 614. By Mr. Dahm. 599 

Military tribunals, juris., art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. .435. By Mr. Curran. 423 

Offenses, answer for, meth., regul., art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 241. By Mr. Austin. 239 

Magistrates, juris., felonies, art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 106. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 106 

Procedure, comm’n to revise, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 437. By Mr. Sargent. 425 

Sentences, app. div. may modify, art. 6 , § 2. 

Pr. 340. By Mr. Steinbrink. 336 

Venue, change, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

Verdict, to fix penalty; waive jury trial, art. 

1, §§ 6 , 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Eights Com. 720 

Witness against self, art. 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 76. By Mr, Quigg. 76 

Witness against self no't compls’ry, art 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 5. By Mr. Parsons. 5 

Witness against self, art. 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 234. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 232 


D 


Death, judgment of, appeals, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 458. By Mr. Bayes. 446 

Death penalty, abolishing, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 24. By Mr. Betts. 24 

Death, actions for, damages, limitation, art. 

I, § 18. 

Pr. 18. By Mr. Aiken. 18 

Debt limit, cities, water excluded, art. 8, § 10'. 

Pr. 681. By Mr. -Sanders. 665 

Debts, city, county, sinking funds, art.' 8, § 10. 

Pr. 423. By Mr. Wiggins. 411 

Debts, cities, co’s. vill., art. 8, § 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. ’By Cities Com. 713 

Debts, funded, munic., regul., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn.272 

Debts, funded, maturing, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. E. B. Smith. 470 

Debts, for pub. improv., instalm’ts, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 489. By Mr. Lincoln. 477 


Debts, state, contracting, regul., art. 7, §§ 2, 
4, 5, 11. 

Pr. 739. By Finance Com...,,,,. 


Int. No. 

Debts, state, laws creating, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 592. By Mr. Cullinan. 577 

Debts, state, pay. annual instal., art. 7, § 11. 

Pr. 532. By Mr. Lincoln. 520 

Debts, state, serial bonds, art. 7, new § 4. 

Pr. 665. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 649 

Debts, state, serial bonds, art. 7, H 4, 11 , 12 . 

Pr. 481. By Mr. E. B. Smith. 469 

Debts, state, serial bonds, art. 7, §§ 2 , 4, 5, 

11 , 12 . 

. Pr. 784. By Finance Com. 705 

Debts, state, serial bonds, etc., art. 7 , § 4. 

Pr. 714. By Mr. Austin. 509 

Debts, state sinking funds for, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 100. By Mr. Wagner. 100 

Debts, state, sinking fd., surplus, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 645. By Mr. Parsons. 629 

Debts, state, by contract, accrual, art. 7, § 6 . 

Pr. 343. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 339 

Debts, state, pay, anticipate taxes, art. 7, § 2 . 

Pr. 367. By Mr. Austin. 362 

Delinquents, courts for, art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Delinquents, cts. for, art. 6 , new § 24. 

Pr. 579. By Mr. Clearwater. 564 

Directors, cumulative voting for, art. 8 , § 3 . 

Pr. 664. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 648 

Directors' stock corp’ns, cumulative voting, 
for, art. 8 , § 3. 

Pr. 122. By Mr. Marshall. 122 

Diseases (see “ Health ”) 

Dist. attorney, appointed by sheriff, art. 10 . 
§§ 12 . 

Pr. 178. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 17S 

District attys., certain counties, art. 10, § 1 . * 

Pr. 229. By Mr. Newburger. 227 

District atty, inform’n, crim. cases, art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 473. By Mr. F. Martin.. 461 

Dist. attys., terms, removal, N. Y. City, etc., 
art. 10 , § 1 . 

Pr. 447. By Mr. E. B. Smith. 435 

Doctors, (see “ Health ”). 

Domestic relations, court, etc.,’ art. 6 , new 
§ 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 443 

Domestic relations, courts of, art. 6 . 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Dower, inchoate,’abolish, etc., art. 1, § 12. 

Pr. 300. By Mr. Brenner.. 296 


Draining, swamps, agric, lands, prop, for, 
art. 1, § 7 and new §. 

Pr. 407. By Mr. E. B. Smith. .55 

Draining, swamps, agric. lands, etc., art. 3. 

§ 18. 

Pr. 54. By Mr. E. B. Smith. .54 

Drainage, swamps, local bills, art. 3, § 18. 


Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

E 

Efficiency, consoPg depts., etc., art. 5 , new § 10. 

Pr. 186. By Mr. Lincoln. 186 

Engineer, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 651. By Mr. Donnelly. 635 

Engineer, appointed by Gov., art. 5 , § 1 . 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 179 

Engineering, dept, of, art. 4 , new; art. 5 , 
new. 

Pr. 655. By Mr. J. G. Saxe 


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123 


Int. No. 

Engineering, dept, of, estab., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Engineering dept., juris, public wks. division, 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Engineer, Gov. to appoijit, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner.1 555 

Engineer, state, appointed by Gov., art. 4, 

§ 4; art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 10, § 9; art 8, 

§ 12; art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal 
§§ 3, 4, 7 and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 

Engineer, state, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletreau. 222 

Engineer, state, canal employees, art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 369. By Mr. Austin. 364 

Eng., state, duties pub. works supt., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 446. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 434 

Engineer, state, election, appointment, art. 5, 

§§ 1-3 and new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 

Engineer, state, member Gov’s council, art. 4, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Engineer, state, seat in legis., art. 5, new § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 

Engineer and surveyor. Gov. to appoint, art. 

5, § 1. 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 125 

Engineer and surveyor, 4-year term, art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Dooling. 134 

Engineer and surv., 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

.Pr. 109. By Mr. Bockes. 109 

Engineer and surv., term, repeal, § 2, art. 5. 

Pr. 110. By Mr. Bockes. 110 

Engineer and surveyor, appointing, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By Mr. Wadsworth. 418 

Engineer and surveyor, appoint’g, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 

Engineering, state dept, of, art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Equality before law, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 16. By Mr. Brackett. 16 

Excise (see “ Liquors ”) 

Executive branch, state gov., reorg., art. 4, 
new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Executive branch, state gov., reorg., art. 4, 
new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Executive branch, state govt., reorg., art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Extradition, habeas corpus, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 177. By Mr. Dunmore. 177 


EDUCATION 

Cities, education bds., state system, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 415. By Mr. Latson. 403 

Cities, education bds. appointing, art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 483. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 471 

Cities, education bds., powers, etc., art. 9, 
new §. 

Pr. 757. By Education Com.... 704 

Comm’r of, conserv. advis. bd., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell. 669 


Int. No. 

Common school, literature, U. S. dept, funds, 
art. 9, § 3. 

Pr. 40. By Mr. Austin.. 40 

Common school system, free legis. to provide, 
art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 103. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 103 

Denominational schools, state aid, art. 9, § 4, 
repeal. 

Pr. 552. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 537 

Department of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; 
new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Department of, counsel, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 179 

Department of, reorg., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Division of, estab., art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Division of, state gov., art. 4, new; art. 5, 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Education of children, state function, art. 9, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 525. By Mr. Schurman. 513 

Educ. of children state function, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 67. By Mr. Linde. 67 

Educ. of children, state function, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 820. By Education Com. 698 

Publications by legis., distribution, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 540. By Mr. Coles. 525 

School bonds, maturity, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 

Schools, English text-books only, art. 9, § 4. 

Pr. 682. By Mr. Nixon. 666 

State college and univ., free, art. 9, § 2, 
new. 

Pr. 102. By Mr. Unger. 102 

State univ., forest, regul., etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219 

Tax exem., school prop, prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 92. By Mr. Nixon. 92 

Taxes, school dists., state prop, exempt, art. 

8, new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

Vaccination, compulsory, prohib., art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 502. By Mr. Bayes. 490 

LTniversity, state, change name, art. 9, § 2. 

Pr. 518. By Mr. F. L. Young. 506 

Voters, able to read and write English, art. 

2 § 1 

Pr.’lVl. By Mr. Bell. 171 

ELECTIONS 

Absent electors, regis., vote, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. Mann. 285 

Absent electors, registration, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. Nixon. 91 

Absent electors, summer resorts, regul., art. 

2, §§ 1, 4, 6; art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 695. By Mr. Dunmore . 678 

Absent R. R. emplovees, voting, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 247 

Ballots, paper only; straight vot’g, art. 2, § 5. 

Pr. 730. By‘Mr. R. B. Smith. 212 

Bi-partisan elections bds., regul., art. 2, § 6. 

Pr. 38. By Mr. R. B. SmPh .. 38 

Compulsory voting, art. 2, § 1 

Pr. 227 By Mr. Sargent.. .. . 225 

























































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Int. No. 

Constit^l amendments, initiate by petition, 
art. 14, new § 2. 

Pr. 554. By Mr. Foley. 539 

Const’l amendments, not submit, reg. election, 
art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 214. By Mr. Ahearn. 213 

Const, amendm’ts, ratify’g, art. 14, §§ 1 , 2. 

Pr. 260. By Mr. Cobb. 257 

Const, amendm'ts, submitted by legis., art. 14, 

§§ 1 , 2 . 

Pr. 23G. By Mr. Low. 234 

Constit’l amendments, vote; woman sutirage, 
art. 14, §§ 1, 2, 3, 4. 

Pr. 144. By Mr. Marshall. 144 

Constitutional Conv., delegates, art. 14, § 2. 

Pr. 402. By Mr. Curran. 395 

Constitu’l Conv., referendum, vote, art. 14, 
repeal §§ 123; renumber § 2. 

Pr. 424. By Mr. Barnes. 412 

Corrupt practice clause, official oath, abol., 
art. 13, § 1. 

Pr. 88 . By Mr. Leggett. 88 

County officers, election, in cities, art. iz, 

§§ 2, 3. 

Pr. 709. By Mr. Fobes . 689 

County officers, regul., art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 621. By Mr. Sears.606 

County officers, regul., art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 609. By Mr. Parmenter. 594 

Cumulative voting for assemblymen, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 601. By Mr. Green. 586 

Domicile, 6 mos. residence, regis., etc., art. 2, 

§§ 1, 4, 0 . 

Pr. 298. By Mr. Parsons. 286 

Election frauds, laws, regul., art. 2, § 2. 

Pr. 668 . By Mr. Cobb. 652 

Election bds., officers, appoint., etc., art. 2, § 6 . , 

Pr. 228. By Mr. Newburger. 226 

Election laws, enacted by two-thirds vote, art. 

2 ^ § 4 * 

Pr. 165. By Mr. Lincoln. 165 

Election officers, competitive exam., art. 2, § 6 . 

Pr. 238. By Mr. Bernstein.. 236 

Engineer and surveyor, treasurer, abolish, 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Indians, certain, not to vote, art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 451. By Mr. Lindsay. 439 

Initiative, referendum, provid. for, art. 3, § 1. 

Pr. 676. By Mr. Dahrn. 660 

Initiative, referendum, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 571. By Mr. Eisner. 556 

Iniatiative and referendum, art. 3, new § 1. 

Pr. 498. By Mr. Dahm. 486 

Judges, Gov. to nominate candidates, art. 6 , 
new §. 

Pr. 556. By Mr. Stimson. 541 

Judges, Gov. to nominate cand., art. 6 , § 10. 

Pr. 622. By Mr. Sears.. 607 

Judges, odd numbered years, art. 6 , §§ 4, 8 ; 
art. 10, § 5. 

Pr. 680. By Mr. Sears. 664 

Judges, separate elections for, art. 6 , new §. 

Pr. 511. By Mr. Parsons. 499 

Laws, uniform applic’n, bi-partisan bds., etc., 
art. 2, §§ 4, 6 . 

Pr. 509. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 497 

Legislative acts, constit’ly, vote on, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 


Int. No. 

Legislative body, 1st cl. cities, art. 3, new § 4. 


Pr. 507. By Mr. Foley. 495 

Local, proposit’ns to spend money, art. 8 , § 10. 

Pr. 35. By Mr. Mereness. 35 

Judges, ct. of app., art. 6 , §§ 2, 4, 7, 8 . 

Pr. 26. By Mr. Sheehan. 26 

Judges, nominating, sup. ct., app. ct., art. 6 , 
new §. 

Pr. 20. By Mr. Aiken. 20 

Judges, re-electing, art. 6 , § 10. 

Pr. 313. By Mr. Brenner. 309 

Judges, running for other office, art. 6 , § 10. 

Pr. 8 . By Mr. Unger. 8 

Judges, separate election for, art. 2, § 5; 
art. 6 , new §; art. 6 , §§ 4, 8 , 14, 17, 18; 
art. 10 , § 2 ; art. 12 , § 3 . 

Pr. 405. By Mr. Curran. 398 

Municipal officers, nominations, art. 2, new 
§ 7. 

Pr. 366. By Mr. Low. 361 

N. Y. City, assemblymen, dists., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 602. By Mr. Green. 587 

N. Y. City, 4 mos. residence in city, art. 2 , § 1 . 

Pr. 379. By Mr. Dahm. 372 

N. Y. City, Senate, Assembly dists., maxi¬ 
mum, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 697. By Legislative Organiz. Com.. 680 
N. Y. City, Senators, maximum number, art. 

3, § 4. 

Pr. 722. By Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 673 

Nominations, elections, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Nominations, laws not to favor parties, art. 

3, new §. 

Pr. 752. By Legislative Powers Com... 699 
Nominations, state conv.; regis., art. 2 , § 4 . 

Pr. 729. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 4 

Officers, county, town, village, etc., art. 10 , § 2 . 

Pr. 323. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 319 

Party conventions, nominations, art. 2, § 4. 

Pr. 745. By Mr. Tierney. 105 

Paper ballot only, art. 2 , § 5 . 

Pr. 11.3. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 113 

Proportional representation, pref. voting, art. 

2 , new §. 

Pr. 135. By Mr. Low. 135 

Public employees, vote for local offic als, art. 

2 , § 1 . 

Pr. 670. By Mr. Green. 654 

Pub. Serv. Com’rs, Supt. Banks, Insur., etc., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 336. By Mr. O’Connor. 332 

Reapportionment, regulating, art. 3 , §§ 2 - 5 , 8 , 
and repeal § 7 ; art. 10 , § 6 . 

Pr. 869. By Legislative Organiz. Com. . . 722 
Recall, elective officials, art. 13, new* § 7. 

Pr. 572. By Mr. Eisner. 557 

Registration, absent electors, providing for, 
art. 2, § 4. 

Pr. 844. By Suffrage Com. 711 

Regis., etc., absentee voters, art. 2 , new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. Steinbrink. 42 

Registration, absent electors, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. Wiggins. 127 

Registration, personal, elim. rural dist., art. 

2, § 4. 

Pr. 667. By Mr. Cobb. 651 

Registration, voting, qualific’n, uniform, art. 

2, § 4. 

Pr. 468. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 456 

























































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Int. 

Short ballot bill, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 5, and 
repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 

Short ballot bill, etc., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 

Short ballot, state officers, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletreau. 

Short ballot bill, state officers, art. 5, § 2, 
repeal {5 7. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 

Short ballot, state officers, art. 4, § 4; art. 5, 
§§ 1, 2; art. 8, § 12; art. 10, § 9; art. 
11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal §§ 3, 4, 7 
and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 

Short ballot, state officers, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 

Short ballot, state officers, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 
G-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 803. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 
Short ballot, state officers, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 651. By Mr. Donnelly. 

Short ballot bill, state officers, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By Mr. \ /adsworth. 

State officers, elec, or appoint., art. 5, §§ 1-3, 
new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 

State officers, certain, appointing, art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By ]\Ir. J. G. Saxe. 

Sup’vision of, bv dept, of records, art, 5, § 2. 

Pr. SO. By :\Ir. E. X. Smith. 

Supervisors, number, elec’n, etc., art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 538. By Mr. Coles. 

Vacancies, court of appeals, art. 6, § 8. 

Pr. 514. By Mr. Shipman. 

Voters, must be citizens 5 yrs., art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 290. By Mr. Meigs. 

Voters, must read & write English, art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 171. By :Mr. Bell. 

Voters, must read or write English, art. 2, 
new §. 

Pr. 776. By ]\Ir. C. H. Young. 

Voters, qualifications, art. 2, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 611. By Mr. Leggett. 

Voters, residence, art. 2. § 1. 

Pr. 390. By ]Mr. Cobb. 

Voters, 30 days’ res, in county, art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 821. By Mr. Wiggins. 

Voting, compulsory, art. 2. new §. 

Pr, 274. By Mr. Donovan. 

Woman suffrage amendment, submitted by 
legislature, art. 14, § 3. 

Pr. -. By Suffrage Com... 

Woman suffrage, granting, art. 2, § 1, 

Pr. 357. By -Mr. Franchot. 

Woman, suffrage, art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 679. By Mr. Franchot. 

Woman suffrage, art. 14, §§ 1, 2, 3, and new § 
Pr. 855. By Future Amendments Com. . 
Woman suffrage, providing for, art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 566. By Mr. Eisner. 

Woman suffrage, women’s sentiment upon, 
art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 389. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Woman suffrage, women to vote on question, 
art. 2, new § 7. 

Pr. 140. Bv Mr. Dunmore. 


ELECTRICITY. Int. No. 

(See “ Public Service.”) 


F 

Factories. (See “ Labor.”) 

Fights, boxing, exhibits, forbid., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 139. By Mr. Quigg. 139 

Finance, state budget. (See ‘‘B; ” Budget.) 

Fish. (See “Conservation.”) 

Finance and taxation, dept, of, art. 5, §§ 1-4, 

6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Finance, state dept, of, estab., art. 5, § 2. 


Pr. 86. By Mr. E. X. Smith. 86 

Firemen, vol., civil serv., pref., art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 77. By Mr. S. K. Phillips. 77 

Firemen, volunteer, civ. serv. pref., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 355. By Mr. Wood. 351 

Firemen, volunteer, jury exemption, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Fiscal vear. state, fixing, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 158. By Mr. E. X. Smith. 158 

Forest, control, conserv’n bd., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

Forests, use of, dead timber, etc., art. 7, 

§§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Forests, cemm’r of, appoint, powers, art. 7, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 208. By Mr. ^IcKean. 207 

Forests, 3 comm’rs of, timber, camp sites, 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 154. By Mr. Dunlap. 154 

Forests, com’r; camp sites, timber, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 25. By Mr. Whipple. 25 

Forests, condemnation of, etc., art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 558. By Mr. Parsons. 543 

Forest, control conserv. comm’r, art. 5, §§ 10, 

11 new. 

Pr. 221. By Mr. Bunce. 220 

Forests, land division, conserv’n dept., art. 7, 
new § 7. 

Pr. 450. By ^Ir. Green. 438 

Forests, leasing, water supply, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By iMr. Bunce. 219 

Forest preserve, trespass, penalties, art. 7, 
new § 7-a. 

Pr. 647. By Mr. Leary. 631 

Forest preserve." camp sites, roads, forest’n, 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 37. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 37 

Forest preserve, camp sites, timber, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 10 

Forest pres., lands, timber, sale of, art, 7, § 7. 

Pr. 247. By Mr. Austin. 128 

Forests, regul., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 570 

Forests, timber, sale, etc,, art. 7. § 7. 

Pr. 84. By -Mr. E. X. Smith. 84 

Forests, water, com, of, 3 members, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 492. By Mr. Dow. .. 480 

Franchises, cities, condemn,, art. 1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Mr. M, Saxe. 674 

Franchise, grant, perpetuity, prohibit., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 

Franchises, private, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr, Wickersham. 624 


No. 

172 

125 

222 

415 

472 

555 

716 

635 

418 

246 

498 

86 

523 

502 

287 

171 

686 

596 

383 

51 

271 

703 

353 

663 

’ 715 

551 

382 

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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. No. 

Franchises, indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, 

§ 30 new. 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low. 548 

Fraud, enactments, etc., obtained by, void, art. 

13, §§ 5, 6, 7, new. 

Pr. 63. By Mr. Buxbaum. 63 

Free speech, art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 614. By Mr. Dahm. 599 


Gambling, constit’l, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 659. By Mr. Brackett. 643 

Gambling, prohib., art. 1 , § 9. 

Pr. 660. By Mr- Brackett. 644 

Game. (See “(Conservation.”) 

Grade change, damage, compensation, art. 1 , 
new §. 

Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck. 597 

Grade change damages, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 649. By Mr. Donnelly. 633 

Grade changes, damages, art. 1, §'§ 6-7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Grand jury. (See “Juries.”) 

Grants, state lands, prohib., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

Grants, water, power sites, limit, art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce. 348 

Grants, water rights, limiting, art. 5, §§ 10, 

11 new. 

Pr. 221. By Mr. Bunce. 220 

Grants, water power, etc,, limiting, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219 

Guarantee corp’ns, stockholders, liability, art. 

8 , § 7. 

Pr. 143, By Mr. Doughty. 143 


GAS 

(See “Public Service.”) 


GOVERNOR 

Adjutant-Gen., chief of staff, appoint, art. 

11, § 4. 

Pr. 761. By Mr. Latson. 531 

App. Div. justices, desig., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 340. By Mr. Steinbrink. 336 

Appointments, civ. serv., exempt., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 138. By Mr. Quigg. 138 

Appointments, senate’s consent elim., art. 4, 
new §. 

Pr. 296. By Mr. Leggett. 293 

Appro, bills, budget, submit to legis., art. 3, 

§§ 21, 22; art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 470. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.'.. 458 

Appropriation bills, veto, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 157. By Mr. E. N. Smith.. .. 157 

Appro, bills, veto, reduce items, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 347. By Mr. Tanner. 343 

Appro, recommending, transmit legis., art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 345. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 341 

Attend legis., introduce bills, art. 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 19. By Mr. Aiken. 19 


Int. No. 


Auditor-Gen., elec, by legis., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 692. By Mr. Franchot. 675 

Bills, legis., signing, time of, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 308. By Mr. Betts. 304 

Bills, legis., signing, time of, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 740. By Mr. Tanner. 360 

Bills, message for introduction, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 193. By Mr. Bayes. 192 

Budget, transmit to legig., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 444. By Mr. Meigs. 432 

Budget, transmit to legislature, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709 

Charitable instit’ns, managers, appoint, art. 8 , 

§§ 11, 12, 13, 15. 

Pr. 331. By Mr. Wadsworth. 327 

Char, inst’ns, managers, appoint, art. 8 , §§ 11- 
13, 15 and new §. 

Pr. (563. By Mr. Waterman. 647 

Char, and cor. dept., app’ts, art. 8 , §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Charities, State Bd., appointing, etc., art. 8 , 

§§ 11, 13, 15; art. 8 , § 12 repeal and 
art. 5, § 4 repeal. 

Pr. 371. By Mr. Mandeville. 366 

Civil serv., appointments, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 520. By Mr. Quigg. 508 

Civil Service Commission, appoint., new §. 

Pr. 239. By Mr. Donovan. 237 

Civil serv. com’rs, appoint, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 674. By Mr. Rhees. 658 

Civil Serv. Com., bi-partisan, appoint, art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 736. By Mr. Unger. 136 

Commander-in-chief, military forces, art. 4, 

§§ 4, 6 , and new §. 

Pr. 404. By Mr. Curran. 397 

Commerce and nav. com., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 593. By Mr. Cullinan. 578 

Conserv’n advis. bd., appoint’g, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell. 569 

Conservation com’r, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 586. By Mr. Angell. 571 

Conserv’n com’r, appoint., cts., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 433 

Conservation Com., appoint, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Conservation com’r, appointing, art. 5, new 
§ 10 . 

Pr. 129. By Mr. Austin... 129 

Conservation comm’rs, appointing, 9 , new art; 
art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 


Conserv. Comm’r, water comm’r, appoint, art. 


5, §§ 10, 11, new. 

Pr. 221. By Mr. Bunce. 220 

Constitutionality, referendum, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

County officers, removal, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 435 

County officers, removal, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 805. County, Town & Vil. Off. Com. 717 
Court of appeals, vacancies, fill, art. 6, § 8. 

Pr. 514. By Mr. Shipman... 502 


Court of app., add’l justice, desig., art. 6, § 7. 
Pr. 409. By Mr. Fobes. 


Court of App. judges, appoint’g, art. 6, §§ 7, 8. 
Pr. 199. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 


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127 


Court of Appeals opinions, requiring, new §. 

Pr. 9. By Mr. Donnelly. 9 

Court of claims, judges, appoint, art. 6, § 

15-a new. 

Pr. 527. By Mr. Mandeville. 516 

Court of claims, judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 479. By Mr. Cobb. 467 

Court rules, annul, art. 6, new § 2-a. 

Pr. 183. By Mr. Rod^nbeck. 183 

Eligibility, 10 years residence in state, art. 

4, § 2. 

Pr. 74. By Mr. Wiggins. 74 

Emergency message, abolishing, att. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Emergency message, for bills, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 616. By Mr. O’Connor. 601 

Emergency message to pass bills, abol., art. 

3, § 15. 

Pr. 746. By Mr. Austin. 78 

Emergency message to introduce bills, art. 

3, new § 11. 

Pr. 69. By Mr. Griffin. 69 

Emergencv message for appro, bill, prohib., 
art 3, §§ 15, 20, 21, 24. 

Pr. 342. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 338 

Engineering, comm’rs of, appoint., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Excise com’r, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 625. By Mr. Whipple.. .. 610 

Executive, branch, state gov., reorg., art. 4 
new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Executive branch, state gov., reorg., art. 4 
new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Executive branch, state govt., reorg., art. 5, 

§ 1- 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. .. 694 

Extra sess’ns, recommendations, legis., art. 

4, § 4; art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 819. By Mr. R, B. Smith. 291 

Fish and game com’rs, appointing, art. 7, 
new § 7-a. 

Pr. 121. By Mr. Baldwin. 121 

Forest com’r, appoint, 10 yrs.. art. 7, §§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Forest preserve, regul., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219 

Forests, comm’rs of, appointment, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 154. By Mr. Dunlap. 154 

Forests, comm’r of, appointment, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 208. By Mr. McKean. 207 • 

Forests, water com. of, appoint, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 492. By Mr. Dow. 480 

Governor’s council, state budget. Gov’s salary, 
art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. Bv Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Impeach, conviction, powers, art. 4, § 6. 

Pr. 528. By Mr. Johnson. 516 

Impeachment of, court of, composition, art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 137. By Mr. Rosch. 137 

Impeachm’t of, powers pend, trial, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 243. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 241 

Imp’chm’t of, powers pend, con vie., art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 518 

Impeachment, suspend powers, art. 4, § 6. 

Pr. 244. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 242 

Industrial brd.. memb., appt., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 273. By Mr. Parsons. 270 


Int. No. 

Industrial council, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Initiative, referendum, 'Veto power, art. 3, § 1. 

Pr. 676. By Mr. Dahm. 660 

Judges, nominating candidate, art. 6, § 10, 

Pr. 622. By Mr. Sears. 607 

Jurors, state com’r of, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 672. By Mr. Green. 656 

Legis. counsel, appoint., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 562. By Mr. Low. 547 

Legislative counsel, appointing, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 184. By Mr. Rodenbeck.. ... 184 

Legislature, extra sessions, annual budget, 

Art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 156. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 156 

Legis., session after 30-day period, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 631. By Mr. Buxbaum. 615 

Legis., session after 30-day period, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 632. By Mr. Buxbaum. 616 

Member of board of pardons, art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 237. By Mr. Bernstein. 235 

Not to desig. justices to app. div., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 148. By Mr. Bernstein. 148 

Official ref., desig. as sup. ct. justice, art. 6, 
new § 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young. 463 

Pardons, approve, art. 8, §§ 11, 12; art. 4, 
repeal § 5. 

Pr. 771. By Mr. Marshall. 269 

Pardons, state bd., appoint, art. 8, § 11; art. 

4, repeal § 5. 

Pr. 643. By Mr. Bell. 627 

Prisons, Commis’n on, appoint, art. 8, § 17 
new. 

Pr. 333. By Mr. Wadsworth. 329 

Prison supt., appointm’t, abol., art. 5, § 4 re¬ 
peal. 

Pr. 448. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 436 

Public serv. com’rs, appoint., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 715. By Mr. Foley. 98 

Public Service Com’rs, appointment, removal, 
art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 161. By Mr. Schurman. 161 

Pub. Sev. Com’rs, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 494, By iNfr^. Coles. 482 

Public Serv. Com., appoint., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 708. By Mr. Landreth . 688 

Pub. serv, com’rs, appoint’g, ncAV article. 

Pr. 655, By Mr. Hinman. 639 

Public Serv. Com’rs, removal, recommend, 
art. 5, new §, 

Pr. 856. By Public Utilities Com. 706 

Pub. utilities comm’rs.. appoint, new art, 

Pr. 718. By Mr. Olcott. 249 

Public Works, Suprt., to be elected, art. 5. § 3. 

Pr. 334. By Mr. Curran. ... 330 

Rec,, supt.. counties, appoint, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 456. By Mr, Reeves. 444 

Salary, increase to $20,000; introduce bills, 
art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 182. By Mr. Devo. 182 

Salary, increase to $15,000, art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 50. By Mr. Griffin. 50 

Securities, mun., com. to regul., art. 8, new §, 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

State budget, submitting, art, 5, new §. 

Pr. 646. By Mr. Parsons. 630 

State lands, grants, approval, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 
































































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Int. No. 

State dept, heada, appointing, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

State Lunacy Com., appoint., art. 8, § 16 new. 

Pr. 332. By Mr. Wadsworth. 328 

State officers, appointing, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 651. By Mr. Donnelly. 635 

State officers, appointing, term, ait. 10, § 3. 

Pr. 111. By Mr. R. B. Smith.*.. Ill 

State offi., appoint., art. 5, §§ 1-3, new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 


State officers, appointing, short ballot, art. 5, 

§ L 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll.. 125 

State officers, appointing, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 

State officers, appointing, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By Mr. Wadsworth. 418 

State officers, appointing, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 85. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 85 

State officers, appoint., etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein.. 172 

State officers, appointment of, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 179 

State offi., appoint., art. 4, § 4; art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 
art. 8, § 12; art. 10, § 9; art. 11, §§ 4, 

6; art. 5, repeal §§ 3, 4, 7 and renum¬ 
ber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 

State officers, appoint’g, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 555 

State officers, appointing, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 

6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
State officials, removal, art. 4, § 4. 


Pr. 567. By Mr. Eisner. 552 

State officers, removal, art. 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 639. By Mr. Tanner. 623 

Succession to office of, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 393. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 386 

Supreme ct. justices, appointing, art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 123. By Mr. C.' Nicoll. 123 

Sup. ct. justice, desig. for 2d term, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 64. By Mr. Steinbrink. 64 

Sup. ct. justices, vacancies, filling, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 124. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 124 

Supr. Ct., terms, desig. justices, art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 536. By Mr. Tuck. 164 

Sup. ct., vacancies, filling, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 515. By Mr. Shipman. 503 

Tax com’rs, appointing, etc., art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 636. By ]\Ir. Steinbrink. 620 

Tax Com’rs, 3, appoint, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 627. By Taxation Com. 612 

Taxes, direct, partial veto, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 210. By Mr. Deyo.^. 209 

Taxes, direct, partial veto, art. 4. new §. 

Pr. 212. Bv Mr. R. B. Smith. 211 

Term of, four years, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 49. By Mr. Griffin... 49 

Term of, 4 vears, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 87. Bv Mr. E. N. Smith. 87 

Term, four years, art. 4. § 1. 

Pr. 431. By Mr. Wadsworth. 419 

Term, salary, doubling, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 868. Gov. & Other State Off. Com. . 702 


Vacancies, absence, impeachment, etc., art. 4, 

§§ 6. 7. 

Pr. 846. By ]\Ir. R. B. Smith. 385 


Int. No. 

Vacancy, acting Gov., art. 4, § 7. 

Pr. 529. By Mr. Johnson. 517 

Vessels, pressure, regul., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty.'.. 488 

W’men’s comp, com., labor com’r, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 617. By Mr. O’Connor.. 602 


• H 

Habeas corpus, detention for extradition, art. 


Pr. 177. By Mr. Dunmore. 177 

Habeas corpus, right to, suspend, art. 1, 8 4. 

Pr. 435. By Mr. Curran. 423 

Hamilton county judge, surrogate, qualific’ns, 
art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 258. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 255 

Hamilton Co., legis. may not abolish, art. 3, 

§ 5. 

Pr. 321. By Mr. Bunce. 317 

Hamilton Co., legis. may not abol., art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 425. By Mr. Dunlap. 413 

Hamilton Co., legis. may not abolish, art. 3, 

§§ 3-5; art. 6, § 1; art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 396. By Mr. Betts. 389 

Home rule, buildings, height, etc., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 686. By Mr. Bannister . 669 

Home rle, build’s, zones, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister . 670 

Home rule, cities, art. 12, §§ 2, 3. 

Pr. 709. By Mr. Fobes . 689 

Home rule, cities, granting, art. 12. 

Pr. 851. By Cities Com. 712 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12, §§ 1-3; 
art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner. 68 


Home rule, cities, villages, charter, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 753. By Legislative Powers Com.. 700 
Home rule, cities, art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 381. By Mr. Mann. 374 

Home rule, cities, op. system, art. 12, §§ 1-3, 
new §§ 4-6. 

Pr. 796. By Mr. Franchot. 662 

Home rule, cities, providing, art. 12, § 13. 

Pr. 629. By Mr. Weed. 613 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12, §§ 1-3, and 
new §§ 4, 6. 

Pr. 698. By Mr. Cobb. 650 

Hume rule, cities, villages, art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 671. By Mr. Green. 655 

Hume rule, cities, vill., secur., art. 12, §§ 1, 2, 

3. 

Pr. 187. By Mr. Sanders. 187 

Home rule, cities, villages, guarant., art. 12. 

Pr. 283. By Mr. J. L. O’Brian. 280 

Home rule, counties, towns, art. 10, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 178. By Mr. L. M. :Martin. 178 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12. 

Pr. 335. By Mr. Franchot. 331 

Home rule, citif's, villages, etc., art. 3. §§ 26, 

27 and new §; art. 10, § 2; art. 12, 

§§ 1 , 2 . 

Pr. 535. By Mr. ^Low. 313 

Home rule, cities, art, 12. § 1, 

Pr. 724. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 511 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12 new. 

Pr. 568. By Mr. Eisner 


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129 


Home rule, counties, art. 3, new §, Int. 

Pr. 539. By Mr. Coles. 

Home rule, counties, op. plans, art. 3, §§.26, 
27 and new §. 

Pr. 726. By Mr. Barrett. 

Home rule, mandatory pay-roll laws, art. 

12 , § 2 . 

Pr. 693. By Mr. Berri. 

Home rule, mandatory payroll laws, prohibit., 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 463. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Home rule, prop, dangerous, taking, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister.. 


HEALTH 

Com’r of, term, etc., art. 5, P 1, 2, 5, and re¬ 
peal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 

Contagious diseases, laws regul., art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 701. By Mr. Donovan . 

Department of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; 
new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 
Department of, legis. to maintain, art. 8, 
new § 16. 

Pr. 304. By Mr. Dunlap. 

Department of, mafntenance, direct tax for, 
art. 8, new § 16. 

Pr 684. By Mr. Brackett. 

Division of, estab., art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 

Division of, executive dept., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 7.27. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Dwellings, manuf. in, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 

Emergencies, extra session of legislature, art. 
4, § 4. 

Pr. 156. By Mr. E. IST. Smith. 

Employees, laws for, etc., art. 1, § 19, and 
new §. 

Pr. 434. By Mr. Curran. 

Employees, laws for, protection, art. 1, § 19, 
and new §. 

Pr. 417. By Mr. Parsons. 

Forests, lease for health purposes, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 

Forest preserve lands, use, health purposes, 
art. 7, §§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Forests, use for health purpose, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 10. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Franchises, dangerous to, condemning, art. 
1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Mr. M. Saxe. 

Health and safety, div. state gov’t, art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Hospitals, forest lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Occupational diseases, laws, art. 1, § 18. 

Pr. 418. By Mr. Parsons. 

Occupational diseases, laws, art. 1, new § 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 

Occupational diseases, laws, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 383. By Mr. Foley. 

Occupational diseases, art. 1, §§ 18, 19. 

Pr. 865. By Industrial Interests Com... 


Int. No. 

Old age, sickness, insurance, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 420. By Mr. Parsons. 408 

Physicians, etc., jury exemption, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Physicians, services public institutions, pay, 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 689. By Mr. Leitner. 672 

Public health, supervision, by interior dept., 
art. 5, .§ 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smilth. 86 

Unsanit’y areas, condemn buldg., art. 1, §§ 6,7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

Vaccinat’n, schools, art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 502. By Mr. Bayes. 490 

Water, regul. for health purposes, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 707. By Mr. Landreth. 687 

Waters,^pollution, prohibit, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 299. By Mr. Bannister.. 295 

Workmen, sickness, state insur., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 400. By i\Ir. Cimran. 393 


HIGHWAYS 

Appropriations for, regul., .art. 3, § 20. 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Commissioner, abol., juris, engineering dept., 
art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Com’r of, appointment, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By IMr. Bernstein. 172 

Commissioner of, first election, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 75. By Mr. Wiggins. 75 

Condemn., for, regul., art. 1, §§ 6 , 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

Control, engineering dept., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Cost, appor., towns, cit., vil., art. 7, § 13 new. 

Pr. 811. By Mr. Westwood. 479 

County, town, powers, art. 3, §§ 26, 27; art. 

10 , § 2 . 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 721 
Dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Dept, of, juris, public wks. division, art. 5, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Div. of Pub. Utilities, estab., art. 4 new; art. 

5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Grade change damage, art. 1 , § 7. 

Pr. 649. By Mr. Donnelly. 633 

High, bds, appor., art. 7, § 13 new. 

Pr. 490. By Mr. Sanders. 478 

Highway bonds, excess, apport’g, art. 7, new 
§' 13. 

Pr. 837. By Mr. Blauvelt. 31 

Highway bonds, excess, apportioning, art. 7, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 360. By Mr. Angell. 356 

Highway com’r to be elected by people, art. 5, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 73. By Mr. Wiggins. 73 

Highway debt, sinking fund, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 99. By Mr. Wagner. 99 

Highway debts, contrib., art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 533. By Mr. Lincoln. 521 


No. 

524 

462 

676 

451 

671 

172 

681 

716 

300 

668 

498 

694 

407 

156 

422 

405 

370 

71 

10 

674 

540 

375 

406 

554 

376 

714 





















































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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. No. 

Highway moneys, apportioning, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 438. By Mr. Wagner. 426 

Local bills, for, regul., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham.. . .. 624 

Roads, open, grade, necessity, damage, art. 1, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 326. By Mr. Ryan. 322 

State debts for, authorizing, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 442. By Mr. Heaton. 430 

State high, debt, maximum, art. 7, §§ 4, 11, 12. 

Pr. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 469 


I 


Impeachment, convene Assembly for, art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Impeachment court, convening, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 731. By Legislative Powers Com... 695 
Impeachment, court of, members of, art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 141 

Impeachment, court of, composition, art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 39. By Mr. Lincoln. 39 

Impeachment, extra session for, art. 4, § 4; 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 819. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 291 

Impeachm’t, gov., etc., power pending trial, 
art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 243. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 241 

Impeachment, Gov., powers, art. 4, § 6. 

Pr. 528. By Mr. Johnson. 516 

Impeachm’t, Gov., suspend cowers, art. 4, § 0. 

Pr. 244. By Mr. E. 1^. Smith. 242 

Impeachment, Gov., Lieut-Gov., court of, art. 

6, § 13. 

Pr. 137. By Mr. Rosch. 137 

Impeachm’t, pub. offi., regul., art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 518 

Impeachment, surrender office pending trial, 
art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 155. By Mr. Bunce. 155 

Improvem’ts, inherit, tax moneys for, art. 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 541. By Mr. Bannister. 526 

Indictment, waiv., art. 1, §§ 6-7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com.... 720 

Industrial commision, head labor dept., art. 

5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Indus, council, estab., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Indus, rel., div., estab., art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510'. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 498 

Industry, division of. executive dept., art. 5, 

§ 1 - 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Industry, and Agri., div. of, art. 4 new; art. 

5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Initiative, referendum. (See “Elections.”) 
Inspect’n. dept. of. art. 5, neAv § 

Pr. 560. Bv Mr. Parsons. 545 

Interior dept, of, estab., art. 5, 8 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Imprisonment, civil cases, prohib., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 117. By Mr. Latson. 117 


Int. No. 

Indians, courts of, abol., art. 1, § 15... 

Pr. 282. By Mr. Lindsay. 279 

Industrial board, appoint, etc., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 273. By Mr. Parsons.;. 270 

Irrigation, conserv’n dept., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 438 


INDIANS 

Tribal cts., abolishing, etc., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 451. By Mr. Lindsay. 439 

Tribal courts, abolish., etc., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 799. By Indian Relations Com. 707 


INSANE 

Com’r of, state hosp., council, art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Dept, of, art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Dept, of, juris, charities and corrections div., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Hospitals for, juris., state charities, bd., art. 

8, §§ 11, 13, 15; art. 8, § 12 and art. 

5, § 4 repeal. 

Pr. 371. By Mr. Mandeville. 366 

State Hospital Comm., continued, art. 5, 

§§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
State hosp. com., regul., art. 8, § 11. 

Pr. 348. By Mr. Shipman. 344 

State hosps., control, art. 8, §§ 11, 13, 15, and 
repealing S 12; art. 5, § 4. 

Pr. 653. By Mr. Hinman. 637 

State Lunacy Com’n, create, art. 8, § 16 new. 

Pr. 332. By Mr. Wadsworth. 328 

State Lunacy Com.,' powers, etc., art. 8, § 11. 

Pr. 827. By Mr. Steinbrink. 371 


INSURANCE 

Com’r or, appointment, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Department of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 repeal; 
new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Division of insur. and banking, estab., art. 4, 
new; art. 5, new. 


Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Division of, state gov., art. 4, new; art. 5, 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Insurance and banking, div. of, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Stockholders, insurance corporat’ns, liability, 
art. 8, § 7. 

Pr. 143. By Mr. Doughty.. 143 

Stocks, etc., exchanges, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 596. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 581 

Supt. of, elected by people, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 80. By Mr. Brackett. 80 

Superinteedent of, election, art 5, § 1. 

Pr. 336. By Mr. O’Connor. 332 

















































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131 


Int. Mo 

Supervision of state finance dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Workmen’s comp., old age, etc., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 400. By Mr. Curran. 393 

Workmen’s compensation, laws, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 420. By Mr. Parsons. 408 

Workmen’s compen., State fund, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 618. By Mr. O’Connor. 603 

Workmen’s compen., state insur., etc., art. 1, 
new § 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 554 


J 

Judges, practice of law by, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 104. By Mr. Tierney. 

Judicial statistics, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Justice, dept, of, estab., art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 
Justices of peace, election, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 255. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Justices of peace, fees, prohib., art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander. 

Justice of peace, juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 

Justices of peace, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Newburger. 

Justices of peace, as masters of county ct., 
art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 114. By Mr. Kirby. 

Justices of peace, number regul., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 175. By Mr. Bunce. 

Justices of peace, fees, etc., art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 338. By Mr. Coles. 

Justices of peace, laws abol., art. 6, § 22. 

Pr. 412. By Mr. Adams. 

Justices of peace, number, etc., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 370. By Mr. Bunce. 

Justices of peace, qualific’ns, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 263. By Mr. Coles. 

Justices of peace, qualific’ns, art, 6, § 20. 

Pr. 258. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Justices of peace, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Mr. Devo 
Justices of peace, removal, etc., art. 6, §§ 

18. 

Pr. 551. By Mr. Brenner. 

Justices of peace, removal, etc., art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 391. By Mr. Cobb. 

Justices of peace, removal, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 311. By Mr. Ryan. 

Justices of peace, reorg., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 578. By Mr. Vanderlyn... 

Justices of peace, special sess. juris., art. 6, 
§ 23. 

Pr. 324. By. Mr. Dunmore. 

Justices of peace, terms, etc., art. 6, §§ 17, 
22, 23. 

Pr. 163. By Mr. Leggett. 


104 

718 

716 

252 

273 

561 

447 

114 

175 

334 

400 

365 

260 

255 

522 

536 

384 

307 

563 

320 

163 


jaDICIARY 

Appeals, to ct. of appeals, regul., art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 160. By Mr. Cobb. 

Appellate cts., take evidence, etc., art. 6, new 
§ 9-a. 

Pr 356. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 


160 


Int. No. 


App. Div., abol., etc., art. 6, §§ 2, 7. 

Pr. 457. By Mr. Bayes. 445 

App. Div., depts., judges, appeals, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 606. By Mr. Mandeville. 591 

App. Div., justices, powers, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 340. By Mr. Steinbrink. 336 

Board of judicial appointment and control, 
art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams. 485 

Bribery, art. 13, §§ 2, 3, 4, repeal. 

Pr. 485. By Mr. Leggett. 47J 

Budget for, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709- 

Children’s cts., domestic rel. cts., art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 579. By ‘Mr. Clearwater. 564 

Civ. code bills, veto, app. div., etc., art. 3, 
new §; 

Pr. 638. By Mr. Baldwin. 622 

Condemnation, judge of, creating, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 169. By Mr. Brenner. 169 

Constitutionality, ct. of appeals opin., art. 6, 
new §. 

Pr. 559. By Mr. Parsons. 544 

Constitutionality, determining, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner^. 558 

Constitutionality of laws, art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 310. By Mr. McKinney. 306 

ConstitutionalHy of laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran. 421 

Conotitutionality of laws, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 147. By Mr. Shipman. 147 

County courts, juris., etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 426. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 414 

County courts, juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 476 

County courts, juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 685. By Mr. Lincoln. 608 

County courts. New York City court, judges, 
jurisdiction, art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 422. By Mr. C. H. Young. 410 

County courts, N. Y. City court, general ses¬ 
sions, etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 152. By Mr. C. H. Young. 152 

Co. cts., N. Y. city cts., gen. sess., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr. C. H. Young. 251 

County judge, surr., pay, change during term, 
art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 151. By Mr. Burkan. 151 

County judges, surrogate, salary, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 577. By Mr. Rosch. 562 

Court of appeals, abol., art. 6, § 7. 

Pr. 605. By Mr. Mandeville. 590 

Court of appeals, composition, etc., art. 6, § 7. 

Pr. 409. By Mr. Fobes. 274 

Court of appeals, constitutionality of laws, 
art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 147. By Mr. Shipman. 147 

Ct. of appeals, judges, appointed by Gov., 
art. 6, §§ 7, 8. 

Pr. 199. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 198 

Court of appeals, juris., art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 440. By Mr. Wiggins. 428 

Court of app., juris., app. div. cts., etc., art. 

6, § 9. 

Pr. 458. By Mr. Bayes. 446 


Court of appeals, reorgan., app. div., justices, 
art. 6, §§ 2, 4, 7, 8. 

Pr. 26. By Mr. Sheehan. 


352 


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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. No. 

Court of appeals, merging in supreme court, 
art. 6, §'§ 1-1.3. 

Pr. 306. By Mr. Gladding.. . 302 

Ccrtirt of appeals opinions, for gov., legis., 
new §. 

Pr. 9. By Mr. Donnelly. 9 

Co. judges, number, terms, etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 14. By Mr. C. H. Young. 14 

County judges, legis. may increase, art. 6, 

§ 14. 

Pr. 61. By Mr. Frank. 61 

Court of appeals vacancies, fill, art. 6, § 8. 

Pr. 514. By Mr. Shipman. 502 

Court of Claims: 

Abolishing, art. 6, §§ 1, 19 and new §. 

Pr. 414. By Mr. Latson.. 402 

Composition, pay, etc., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 56. By Mr. R. B. Smith... 56 

Constit’l bodv, art. 6, § 16. 

Pr. 478. By Mr. Cobb. 466 

Const-it’l body, art. 6, § 15-a, new. 

Pr. 527. By Mr. Mandeville. 515 

Judges, terms, infer., local cts., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 480. By Mr. Cobb. 468 

Judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 479. By Mr. Cobb.'467 

Court of crim. appaals, estab., art. 6, § 6, new. 

Pr. 21. By Mr. Aiken. 21 

Court, general sessions, N. Y. co., abol., art. 

6, § 5. 

Pr. 7. By Mr. Olcott.. 7 

Ct. of Gen. Sessions, N. Y. county, continuej 
art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 170. By Mr. Baldwin. 170 

Court procedure, revising, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 437. By Mr. Sargent. 425 

Ct. procedure, rules, adopt’n, art. 6, new § 2-a. 

Pr. 183. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 183 

Court procedure, fixing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 720. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 690 

Court rules, public’n; decisions, index, etc., 

■ art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 280. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 277 

Court rules, comm’n on, chairman, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. -364. By Mr. Wickersham. 359 

Courts, limited juris., cities, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 372. By Mr. Sears. 367 

Courts, reorganizing generally, art. 6, §§ 1-3, 

5-7, 9, 12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood. 611 

Courts, special sess.. art. 6, §§ 17, 22, 23. 

Pr. 163. By Mr. Leggett. 163 

Courts, special, eliminate, etc., art. 6. 

Pr. 265. By Mr. Reeves. 262 

Courts, state, reorganize, art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves.!.. 308 

District cts., limited juris., uniform, art, 6, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 610, By Mr. Parmenter. 595 

Domestic Rel. c'ts., 1st cl. cities, art. 6, new 
§ 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams.443 

First judic. dept., N. Y., Bronx, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 421. By Mr. F. Martin. 409 

Impeachment court, composition, etc., art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson.. 518 

Impeachment court, composition of, art. 6, 

§ 13. 

Pr. 39. By Mr. Lincoln... 39 


Int. No. 

Impeachment court, convening, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 731. By Legislative "Powers Com. . . 695 
Impeachment, surrender office until acquitted, 
art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 155. By Mr. Bunce. 155 

Indian courts, certain, abol., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr, 282. By Mr. Lindsay. 279 

Indian tribal courts, abol., art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 799. By Indian Relations Com..,. 707 
Inferior local courts, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 209. By Mr, Biince. 208 

Inferior local cts,, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 388. By Mr. Angell. 381 

Inferior local courts, juris., acquiring, art. 6, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 106. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 106 

Inferior local courts, cities, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 255. By Mr. Dunmbre. 252 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 259. By Mr.' Cobb. 256 

Inferior local cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Inferior local cts., -juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 575. By Mr. Wiggins. 560 

Inferior local cts., juris., art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 604. By Mr. Mandeville. 589 

Inferior local cts., iur, in 'county, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 256. By Mr. Dunmore. 253 

Inferior local cts., territorial juris., art. 6, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 72. By Mr. Barrett. 72 

Inferior local cts., territorial juris,, art. 6, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 107. By Mr. Bockes. 107 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 305. By Mr.'E. N. Smith. 301 

Judges, candidates for other office, art. 6, 

§ 10. 

Pr. 8. By Mr. Unger.. .. ■ 8 

Judges, chief judge ct, of appeals to nom¬ 
inate, art 6, new §. 

Pr. 20. By Mr. Aiken. 20 

Judges, court appeals, sup. ct., re-elect, art. 6, 

§ 10. 

Pr. 313. By Mr. Brenner. 309 

Judges, elec., odd-numbered vrs., art. 6, §§ 4, 

8; art. 10, § 5. ^ 

Pr, 680. By Mr. Sears. 664 

Judges, Gov. to nominate cand., art. 6, § 10. 

Pr. 622. By Mr. Sears. 607 

Judges, Gov. to recom’d cand., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 556. By Mr. Stimson.. 541 

Judges, qualific’ns, prac. law, etc., art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 224 

Judges, etc., removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Mr. Deyo.. 522 

Judges, removal, convene legis., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com,.. 696 
Judges, separate election for, art, 2, § 5; art. 

6, new §; art. 6, §§ 4, 8, 14, 17, 18; 
art. 10, § 2; art. 12, § 3. 

Pr. 405. By Mr. Curran. 398 

Judges, separate elections for, art. 6, new §. 

Pr, 511. By Mr. Parsons.499 

Judges, surr’s; age limit 72 yrs., art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 493. By Mr. Steinbrink. 481 

Judicial decisions, free for public’n, art. 6, 

§ 21. 

Pr. 327. By Mr. Dunmore. 323 



























































Constitutional Convention Subject Index 133 


Int. No. 

Judicial depts., court of appeals, art. 6, §§ 1, 

2, 4, 7, 12; § 8 repeal. 

Pr. 231. By Mr. Kirk. 229 

Judicial depts., examination by Auditor-Gen¬ 
eral, art. 5,. new §. 

Pr. 692. By Mr. Franchot. 675 

Judicial officers, laws abolishing, art. 6, § 22. 

Pr. 412. By Mr. Adams. 400 

Judicial officers, removal, reguL, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 469. By Mr. Wagner. 457 

Judicial officers, qualifiers, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 276. By xMr. Ostrander. 273 

Judicial officers, qualifiers, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 258. By :\Ir. R. B. Smith. 255 

Judicial officers, removal, etc., art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 391. By Mr. Cobb. 384 

Judicial statistics, art. 6, § 21. 

Pr. 466. By Mr. Baldwin. 454 

Judiciary counsel, court procedure, art. 6, 
new § 2-b. 

Pr. 185. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 185 

Juries. (See “ Juries.”) 

Justices of peace, dist. cts., juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 576. By Mr. Wiggins. 561 

Justices of peace, number, etc., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 370. By Mr. Bunce. 365 

Justice of peace, number, regul., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 175. By Mr. Bunce. 175 

Justices of peace, as masters county ct., art. 

6, § 17. 

Pr. 114. By Mr. Kirby. 114 

Justices of peace, qualifiers, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 263. By Mr. Coles. 260 

Justices of peace, fees, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 3.38. By Mr. Coles. 334 

Justices of peace, reorg., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 578. By ]Mr. Vanderlyn. 563 

Juvenile delinquents, child welfare com., art. 

6, new § 24. 

Pr. 553. By Mr. Ahearn. 538 

Kings CO. et,, merge in sup. ct., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 62. By Mr. Adams. 62 

Land registration ct., estab., art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 119. By Mr. Newburger. 119 

Libel, judgment, reparative pub., art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 694. By Mr. Quigg. 677 

Magistrates, justices of peace, removal, art. 6, 

§ 17. 

Pr. 311. By Mr. Ryan.. 307 

Magistrates, local courts, etc., regulations, 
art. 6, §§ 17, 18. 

Pr. 551. By Mr. Brenner. 536 

N. Y. Citv, courts, reorganize, art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 628. By Mr. Wickersham. 377 

N. Y. Citv ct., merge in supreme ct., art. 6, § 5. 

Pr. 149. By Mr. Burkan. 149 

N. Y. Citv, mimic, ct., continuing, etc., art. 6, 

§ 17. 

Pr. 637. By Mr. Steinbrink. 621 

N. Y. City munic., county, city courts, merg¬ 
ing, art. 6, §§ 14, 17. 

Pr. 216. By Mr. Steinbrink. 215 

N. Y. City, special sessions, cts., continue, 
etc., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 702. By Mr. Wagner..'. 682 

Official referees,'restricting, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 190. By Mr. Steinbrink. 189 

Referees, retired judges. Sup. Ct., Ct. App., 
art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young. 463 


Int. No. 

Revising generally, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com.. 718 

Rules, ct. practice, adoption of, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 22. By Mr. Aiken. 22 

Special sessions cts., aboL, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 459. By Mr. Newburger. 447 

Special sessions courts, abol., art. 6, § 23. 

Pr. 324. By Mr. Dunmore. 320 

Special session cts., juris., art. 6, § 23, repeal. 

Pr. 460. By Mr. Newburger. 448 

Special, trial t^rms, justices, desig., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 315. By Mr. Sargent. 311 

Supreme Court: 

Appellate div., justices of, desig., art. 6, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 148. By ]\Ir. Bernstein. 143 

Judges, 10-year terms, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 503. By Mr. Bayes. 491 

Judges, vacancies, filling, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 515. By Mr. Shipman. 503 

Jurisdiction over claims vs. state, art. 6, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 15. By Mr. Brackett. 15 

Juris, over claims vs. state, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 353. By Mr. Angell. 349 

Justices, appointment by gov., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 123. .By Mr. C. Nicoll. 123 

Justices, compen., art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 66. By Mr. Steinbrink.. 66 

Justices, increase, legis., abol., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 65. By Mr. Steinbrink. 65 

Justices, salary, art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 242. By Mr. Clearwater. 240 

Justice, 2d term by desig. of gov., art. 6, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 64. By Mr. Steinbrink. 64 

Justices, terms, vacancies, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 124. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 124 

Land div., aiitliorizing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves. 527 

Sitting in banc, art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 607. By Mr. Mandeville. 592 

Special, trial terms, designating justices, 
art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 536. By Mr. Tuck. 164 

Supreme court, com’rs, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 464. By Mr. Baldwin. 452 

Surr., countv judges, law practice, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 526l By Mr. Nye. 514 

Suit., merg. county ct., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 587. By Mr. Tierney. 572 

Surr., powers, juris., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 499. By Mr. Reeves. 487 

Surrogates courts, powers, etc., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 351. By Mr. Heaton. 347 

Surrogates, terms, juris., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 443. By Mr. McKean. 431 

JURIES 

Composition of, 6 or more, all cases, art. 1, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 45. By Mr. Bayes. 45 

Civil cases, 6 instead of 12, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 43. By Mr. Brenner. 43 

Civil cases, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 198. By Mr. Baldwin. 197 

Commissioner of, appointm’t, etc., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 44. By Mr. Brenner. 44 

Eliminating, misdemeanors, etc., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 
































































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Int. 

Eliminating, certain civil cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 281. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 

Exemptions, from jury duty, prohib., art. 3, 
§ 30 new. 

Pr. 217. By Mr. Wickersham. 

Exemptions from jury duty, abol., art. 3, § 30 
new. 

Pr. 314. By Mr. Brenner. 

Exemptions, limiting, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Felonies, to fix punishment, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 240. By Mr. Griffin. 

Grand jury, elim., certain cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 473. By Mr. .F. Martin. 

Grand jury, indictm’t, crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 373. By Mr. Sears. 

Grand jury, indictm’t, crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 270. By Mr. Mann. 

Grand jury, indictm’t, crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Grand jury, eliminate, guilty plea, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 309. By Mr. Kirby. 

Grand jury indictment, crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 337. By Mr. Coles. 

Grand jury minutes, def’t inspectiig, art. 1, 
6. 

Pr. 16. By Mr. Brackett.. .. 

Grand jury system, reg. by legis., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 241. By Mr. Austin. 

Grand jury, waiving, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 619. By Mr. Franchot. 

Jurors com’r, each ccmnty, art. 10, new §. 

Pr. 600. By Mr. Green. 

Jurors, commissioners of, estab., art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Number, verdict, waiving, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 235. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Number, waiving, regul., by legis., art. 1, S 2. 

Pr. 295. By Mr. Leggett. 

Religious beliefs, asking, art. 1, § 3. 

Pr. 173. By Mr. Slevin. 

Six members; waiving jury, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 189. By Mr, Pelletreau. 

State com’r of, jury duty, regul., art. 5, new L 

Pr. 672. By Mr. Green. 

Surrogates courts, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 351. By Mr. Heaton. 

Surrogates courts, jury trials in, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 443. By Mr. McKean. 

Trial by, criminal cases, art, 1, § 2. 

Pr. 398. By Mr. Curran. 

Trial bv, limitation by legis., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr.‘132. By Mr. Weed. 

Trial by, waiving, crim. cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 374. By Mr. Sears. 

Trial by, waiving, verdict, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 218. By Mr. Wickersham. 

Trial by, waiving; fix penalty, art. 1, §§ 6-7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 

Vacancv, during trial, addit’l jurors, art. 1, 
§ 2. 

Pr. 350. By Mr. Wiggins. 

Verdict, by three-fourths of jury, art 1, 5 2. 

Pr. 17. By Mr. Aiken. 

Verdict by five-sixths, civil cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 207. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 

Verdict, five-sixths, civil cases; waive jury 
crim. cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 408. By Mr. Westwood. 


Int. No. 

Verdict, by three-fourths, civil cases, art. 1, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 354. By Mr. Angell. 350 

Waiving, except capital cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 271. By Mr. Mann. 268 

L 

Lands div., conserv’n dept., art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green... 438 

Land division, sup. ct., establishing, art. 6, 
new §. 

Pr, 2. By i>Ir. Reeves...". 2 

Land division, sup. ct., estab., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves./. 527 

Land Office, Com’rs of, abol., etc., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Land office com’rs, art. 5, repeal § 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. .. . 725 
Land Office, Com’rs, canal bd., art. 5/ § 5. 

Pr. 760. By Mr, Austin. 363 

Lands, state, control engineering dept., art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Lands, state, keep as forest lands, art. 7, new 
§ 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

Lands under water, grants, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 561. By Mr. Low. 546 

Lands under water, grants indeterminate, 
art. 3, § 30, new. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

Lands under water, grants, prohib., art. 7, § 

7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

. Law, practice, county judges, surro,, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Law, practice by judges, prohib., art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 258. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 255 

Law, practice by judges, prohib., art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 224 

Law, prac. by cty. judge, surr,, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 526. By Mr. Nye. 514 

Law, state dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Law, state dept, of, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Law, state dept, of, estab., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. ^6. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Laws, affecting counties in N. Y. City, art. 

12, § 2. 

Pr. 380. By Mr. Mann. 373 

Laws, classific’n, index, etc., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 280. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 277 

Laws, complete in themselves, art. 3, § 17. 

Pr. 700. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 275 

Laws, constit’ly, art. 3, § 16. 

Pr. 743. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 579 

Laws, constitutionality, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 606. By Mr. Mandeville.. 591 

Laws, constitutionality of, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran.. 421 

Laws, constitu’lity of, determ’g, art. 6, § 9. 

Pr. 147. By Mr. Shipman. 147 

Laws, constitutionality of, art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 310. By Mr. McKinney. 306 

Laws, constitutionality, referendum, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

Laws, equal protection for all, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 16. By Mr. Brackett. 16 


No. 

278 

216 

310 

718 

238 

461 

368 

267 

11 

305 

333 

16 

239 

604 

585 

718 

233 

292 

173 

188 

656 

347 

431 

391 

1.32 

369 

217 

720 

346 

17 

206 

116 

































































Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


13ft 


Int. No. 

Laws, for county in a city, art. 3, § 26; art. 

12 , § 2 . 


Pr. 318 By Mr. Wiggins. 

Laws, proposed, ct. of app., opin., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 559. By Mr. Parsons. 

Laws, referendum to voters, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 571. By Mr. Eisner. 

Laws, revision, comm’n for, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 590. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Laws, sale of, legis. to provide for, art. 6, § 21. 

Pr. 327. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Laws, time of taking effect, art. 3, § 17. 

Pr. 328. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Legislative ''ounsel, providing for, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 184. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 

Legislative power. In senate of 60, art. 3, i 1. 

Pr. 41. By Mr. McKinney. 

Libel, prosecution for, art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 614. By Mr. Dahm. 

Libel, reparative publicity, art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 694. By Mr. Quigg . 

Libraries, legis. public’ns, distrib., art. 3, new §. 

F^. 540. By Mr. Coles. 

Lieut.-Gov., act as Gov., art. 4, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 846. By, Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Lieut.-governor, canal bd., art. 5, repeal § 5; 
New §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 
Lieut.-Gov., conserv. advis. bd., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell. 

Lieut.-Gov., elect, of, art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Lieut.-Gov., 4 year term, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 431. By Mr. Wadsworth. 

Lieut.-Governor, four-year term, art. 4, §§ 1, 4. 

Pr. 868. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 
Lieutenant-governor, 4-year term, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 49. By Mr. Griffin. 

Lieut.-gov., 4-year term, art. 4, § 1. 

Pr. 87. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Lieut.-Gov., impeachm’t, court of, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 137. By Mr. Rosch. 

Lieut.-Gov., impeach., powers pending trial, 
art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 243. By Mr. E. N. Smith.- 

Lieut.-Gov., impeach, powers, art. 4, § 7. 

Pr. 529. By Mr. Johnson. 

Lieut.-Gov., impeach, powers, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 

Lieut.-Gov., mem. b’rd. of pardons, art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 237. By Mr. Bernstein. 

Lieut-Gov., powers pend. Gov. impeach, art. 4, 

S 6. 

Pr. 244. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Lieut.-Gov., powers, impeach Gov., art. 4, § 6. 

Pr. 528. By Mr. Johnson. 

Lieut.-Gov., succession, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 393. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Lieut.-gov., 10 years’ residence, art. 4, § 2. 

Pr. 74. By Mr. Wiggins. 

Lieut.-Gov., vacancy, etc., art. 3, § 10. 

. Pr. 841. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Life, twice in jeopardy for same offense, art. 


314 

544 

556 

584 

323 

324 
184 

41 

599 

677 

525 

385 

725 

569 

498 

419 

702 

49 

87 

137 

241 

517 

518 
235 

242 
516 

386 
74 

290 


1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Literacy test, for voters, art. 2, new §. 

Pr.‘ 776. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Loans, state, municipal, proceeds, use, art. 7, 
new S 13. 

Pr. 6. By IMr. Parsons. 


11 

686 

6 


Int. No. 

Loans, trusts, dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 


Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Loans, trusts, juris, treasury div., art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Local improvement assessments, regii., art. 1, 

§§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Lotteries, prohibiting, art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 659. By Mr. Brackett. 643 

Lotteries, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 660. By Mr. Brackett. 644 

LABOR 

Building zones, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Com’r of, appointm’t, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Com’rs of, election, appoint., art. 5, §§ 1-3 
and new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 24ft 

Commissioner of, elected bv people, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Pooling. 134 

Conspiracies, acts singly, in concert, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 613. By Mr. Dahm.. 598 

Contractors, pub. work, employees, art. 3, §§ 

26, 27 and new §; art. 10, § 2; art. 12, 

§§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 535. By Mr. Low. 313 

Dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Eight hour day, public work, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 401. By Mr. Curran. 394 

Employees, protection, laws for, art. 1, § 19, 
and new §. 

Pr. 417. By Mr. Parsons. 405 

Employees, protection, laws for, art. 3, new |. 

Pr. 765. By Mr. A. E. Smith.. 194 

Employees, protection, laws for, art. 1, § 19, 
and new §. 

Pr. 197. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 196 

Indus, rel., div. of, estab., art. 4 new; art. 5 
new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Industrial relations, div. of. art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Indus, rel. div., state govt., art. 4 new; art. 5 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Industry, state dept, of, estab., art. 5, new §• 

Pr. 273. By Mr. Parsons. 270 


Labor and Industries, dept, of, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 

6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Labor disputes, armed forces, art. 4, §§ 4, 6 
and new §. 


Pr. 404. By Mr. Curran. 397 

Labor not a commodity, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 363. By Mr. Wagner. 358 

Labor unions, formation of, art. 8, new § 15. 

Pr. 181. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 181 

Mfg.. in dwellings, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 196. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 195 

Manufacturing in dwellings, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 407 

Manufact’g, unreasonable laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 751. By Mr. Dunmore. 573 





























































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Constitutional Convention- Subject Index. 


Int. No. 

Minimum wage laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 791. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 193 

Minimum wage laws, prohib.,. art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 808. By Legislative Powers Com.... 701 
Minimum wage laws, prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. ..315 

Occupational diseases, art. 1 , §§ 18, 19. 

Pr. 865. By Industrial Interests Com.. 714 
Pressure, steam, gas, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty. 488 

Products, of prison labor, sale, art. 3, § 29 

Pr. 768. By Mr. Tierney. 465 

Pub. works, labor on, regul., art. 12, §§ 1-3; 
art. 1 , new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner. 68 

Stockholders’ liability for, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 341. By Mr! Bayes. 337 

Strikes, lockouts, regul., art. I, § 9; 

Pr. 204. By Mr. Bosch. 203 

Supervision, commerce and labor dept., art. 5, 

§ 2 . 

Pr. 86 . By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Unemployed, relief of, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 399. By Mr. Curran. 392 

W’men’s comp. com. labor dept, separate, art. 

5, new §. 

Pr. 617. By Mr. O’Connor. 602 

Workmen’s comp., labor, legis. to regul., art. 

12 , §§ 1 , 2 . 

Pr. 671. By Mr. Green. 655 

Women’s comp., labor, laws for, art. 1 , new 
§ 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 554 

Workmen’s compen. laws, art. 1 , § 18. 

Pr. 418. By Mr. Parsons. 406 

Workmen’s compen. laws, enact, art. 1 , § 19. 

Pr. 383. By Mr. Foley.....376 

Workmen’s compen. laws, etc., art. 1 , § 19, 
and new §, 

Pr. 434. By INIr. Curran. 422 

Workmen’s compen., unemployed, laws, art. 1 , 

§ 19. 

Pr. 420. By Mr. Parsons. 408 

Workmen’s com., state insur., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 400. By Mr. Curran. 393 

Workmen’s comp., state ins., art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 618. By Mr. OUonnor. 603 

LEGISLATURE. ' ' 

Acts of, constit’lty, determining, art. 6 , § 3. 

Pr. 310. By Mr. McKinney. 306 

Acts of, constit’lty, new art. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

Adjournment, either House, period of, art. 3,. 

§ 11 . 

Pr. 192. By Mr. Bayes. 191 

Adjournm’t, fixing, sess., etc., art. lO, § 6 . 

Pr. 191. By Mr. Bayes.. 190 

Appro., increase over budget, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 157. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 157 

Appropriations, limit to income, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 428. By Mr. Wadsworth. 416 

Appropriations, private, local, regul'., art. 

3, § 20. 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Appro, required, statement transmit, art. 5,. 
new §. 

Pr. 345. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 341 

Appro’hs, state budget, limit, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 444. By Mr. Meigs. 432 


Int. No. 

Appro’s, state budget, etc.,, art 5, new §. 

Pr. 646. By Mr. Parsons. 630 

Appropriations, state budget, etc., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau... 221 

Appropriations, state budget for, art. 3, § 21 . 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com.. 709 

Appr’ns, state bd. of estimate, art. 4, new 

§ 10 . 

Pr. 19. By Mr. Aiken. 19 

Appropriat’ns, state budget com., art. 4, new 

§ 10 . 

Pr. 13. By Mr. C. H. Young. 13 

Appro, to meet pub. improv. bonds, art. 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 


Bills (legislative) : 

Appro, bills, int., time, art. 3, §§ 21, 22; art. 


4, § 4. 

Pr. 470. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 458 

Appro, bills, must state purpose, etc., art. 

3, ^ 21. 

Pr. 330. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 326 

Appro, bills, veto part, art. 4 § 9. 

Pr. 347. By Mr. Tanner. 343 

Appro, bills passage, regul., art. 3, §§ 15, 20 , 

21, 24. 

Pr. 342. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 338 

Appro, orig. in Assembly, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 168. By Mr. Peilletreau. 168 

Approval by legis. counsel, etc., art. 3 , § 15. 

Pr. 18-4. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 184' 

Approval by Gov., time, art. 4 , § 9 . 

Pr. 308. By Mr. Betts. 304 

Approval by Gov., time, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 740. By Mr. Tanner. 360 

City bills, return from mayor, art. 12 , § 2 . 


Const, amends., on desks 5 days, art. 14, § 1 . 

Pr. 33. By Mr. Austin. 33 

Civil code bills, veto app. div., appeals ct., 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 638. By Mr. Baldwin. 622. 

Counties in N. Y. City, mayor’s approval, 
art. 12 , § 2 . 

Pr. 380. By Mr. Mann. 373 

Direct tax bills, amount, object, art. 3 , § 24. 

Pr. 307. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 303 

Emergency message, elimin., art. 3 , § 15. 

Pr. 616. By Mr. O’Connor. 601 

Final passage, call members’ names, art. 3 , 

§ 15. 

Pr. 644. By Mr. Parsons. 628 

Final passage, quorum vote, art. 3 , § 15. 

Pr. 112. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 112 

, Introduction, after Jan. 15, prohib., art. 3 , 

§ 13. 

Pr. 193. By Mr. Bayes. 192 

Introduction by Gov., etc., art. 4 , § 4 . 

Pr. 182. By Mr. Deyo. 182 

Introduction, period of; legis. term, art. 3, 
neAV § 11 . 

Pr. 69. By Mr. Griffin. 69 

Local, private, more than one subject, art 3 
§ 16. ■ ’ 

Pr. 743. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 579 

Passage, limit to 50 a week, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 683. By Mr. Westwood. 667 

Passage, regulating, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 604. By Mr. Mandeville. 539 



























































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Bills (legislative )—Continued : Int. No. 

Passage under emergency message,, abol., 
art. a, § 15. 

Pr. 74'6. By Mr. Austin.. 78 

Print, books, etc., prov’g for,, art. 3, new. §. 

Pr. 540. By Mr. Coles.7 525 . 

Private, local, etc., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 582. By Mr. Barnes. 567 j 

Private, local, franchise, regul.,. art. 3, § 18. | 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickershom. 624 i 

Revising, legislative counsel, art. 3> new §. ( 

Pr. 599. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 584 ! 

Tax bills, direct, partial veto, art. 4, new §. 

Pr. 212. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 211 

Taxes, direct, partial veto, art. 4, § 9. , 

Pr. 210. By Mr. Deyo . 209 ; 

Civ. Serv. appoint., regul., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 520. By Mr. Quigg.. 508 '! 

Corrupt practices laws, art. 13, new §§ 5, 6, 7. j 

Pr. 63. By Mr. Buxbaum. 63 ' 

Court of appeals opinions, requiring, new §. 

Pr. 9. By Mr. Donnelly. 9 

Members: 

Legis. counsel, drafting bureau, art. 3, new 

Pr. 562. By Mr. Low. 547 i 

Acting as atty, before state officials, art. 3, j 
new §. I 

Pr. 669. By Mr. Cobb. 653 

Act as notaries during term, art. 3, § 7. 

Pr. 296. By Mr. Wiggins. 205 

Assemblymen, 2-year terms, art. 3, § 2. , 

Pr. 32. By Mr. Wiggins. 32 

Assemblymen, districts, N. Y. City, art. 3, 

§ 5 - 

Pr. 339. By Mr. Buxbaum. 335 

Assemblymen, number, dists., etc., art. 3, 
new § 5. 

Pr. 350. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 355 

Assemblymen, number of, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 321. By Mr. Bunce. 317 , 

Assemblvmen, increase; senate abolished, j 

art.\3, §§ 1, 6-12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 25; i 
§§ 3, 4, 13 repeal. 

Pr. 232. By Mr. Kirk... 230 j 

Assemblymen, number of, increasing, art. 3, 

§ 5 . 

Pr. 174, By Mr. Haffen. 174 

Civ. appoint, U. S. Senate, art. 3, § 7. 

Pr. 513. By Mr. Parsons. 501 

Dists., reapportion, art, 3, § 4. 

Pr. 574. By Mr. Griffin. 559 

Districts, reapportion, art. 3, §§ 3-5; art. 

6, § 1; art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 396. By Mr. Betts. 389 i 

Districts, reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 697. Legislative Organization- Com. 680 
Districts, reapportioning, art. 10, § 6; 

art. 3, §§ 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and repeal § 7. 

Pr. 869. Legislative Organization Com. 722 
Districts, reapport’g, by legis., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 704. By Mr. Haffen .. • 684 

Election of, by proportT rep., art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 135. By Mr. Low. 135 

Eligibility, municipal office holder, art. 3, 

§ ^ 

Pr. 3. By Mr. J. J. White. 3 

Number, term's, fixing, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 642. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 626 

Number, terms, dists., art. 3, §§ 2-4. 

Pr. 723. By Mr. Haffen. 693 

Other appointments, eligibility, etc., art. 3, 

§■§ 7, 8. 

Pr. 130. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 130 * 


Members — Continued: Int. No. 

Private busi., engage in, art. 5, new §. 

Pr, 150. By Mr. Burkan. 150 

Salarv, increasing, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr.'297. By Mr. Tuck. 294 

Salary, increasing, art. 3, § 6.. 

Pr. &35. By Legis. Organization Com.. 697 
Salary,, senators $4,000, assem. $3,000, aid. 

3, § 6. 


Pr. 48. By Mr. Griffin. 48 

Salary, $3,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 96. By Mr. Latson. 96 

Salary, $3,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 403. By Mr. Curran. 396 

Salarv of, art. 3, '§ 6. • 

Pr.'m. By Mr. Harawitz. 133 

Senators, number, districts, etc., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 230. By Mr. Foley.. 228 

Senators, 1 yr. term, art. 3, § 2; art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 615. By Mr. Dahm. 600 

Senators, number, term, etc., art. 3, §'§ 2-4; 

14, § 1. 


Pr. 279. By Mr. Schurman. 276 

Senators 100; assem. abolish, art. 3, §§ 1, 2.. 

Pr. 30'3. By Mr, Bernstein. 299 

Terms, doubling, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 166. By Mr. Pelletreau. 166 

Terms, doubling, art. 3, § 2, 

Pr. 429. By Mr. Wadsworth. 417 

Terms, doubling, sessions, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 471. By Mr. Tanner... 459 

Terms and salaries, biennial sessions, art. 

3, §§ 2, 6. 

Pr. 30. By Mr. Richards. ■... 30 

Term, senators 4 yrs., assemblymen 2, art. 


3 , § 2 . 


Pr. 47. By Mr. Griffin 


47 


Powers of: 

Absent electors, summer resorts, regul., 
art. 2, §§ 1, 4, 6; art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 605i By Mr. Dunmore. 678 

Actions against state, regul., art, 1, § 1. 

Pr. ,95. By Mr. Westwood. 95 

Adj.-Gen., major gen’Is, aides, etc., art. II, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 761. By Mr. Latson. 531 

Appropriations, priv,, local, prohib., art. 3, 

§ 20 . 

Pr. 269. By Mr, Mann. 266 

Appropriations, reviving, art. 3, § 21, 

Pr. 79. By Mr. Austin... 79 

Appro., as sinking funds, art. 7, § 11. 

Pr, 532, By Mr, Lincoln. 520 

Auditor-General, elec, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 692. By Mr. Franchot. 675 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3 new §, 

Pr. 686. By Mr, Bannister. 669 

Buildings, zones, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr, 687. By Mr. Bannister. 670 

Building zones, municipalities, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Canal lands, struct., aban., sale of, art. 7, 

§ 8 . 

Pr. 222. By Mr. Cobb..,. . 159 

Canals,, tolls, regul., art. 7, § 9, 

Pr. .349. By Mr. Wigsrins.. 345 

Char., correct’ns, dept., regul., art, 8, §§ 11, 

12 . 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Children’s cts., dom. rel. cts., art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 579. By Mr. Clearwater. 564 





























































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Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 

Cities, home rule, powers, art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 381. By Mr. Mann. 374 

Cities, moneys, expending, laws for, art. 

12, § 2. 

Pr. 693. By Mr. Berri . 676 

Cities, lands use, restricting, art. 1, $ 7. 

Pr. 285. By Mr. Marin. 282 

Cities, laws affect., general, art. 12, §§ 2, 3. 

Pr. 709. By Mr. Fobes . 689 

Cities, villages, creation, gov’t., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr.. 797. By Mr. R. B. Smith..254 

Cities, villages gov’t, regul., art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 671. By Mr. Green. 055 

Civil serv., clmrges, tribunals, art. 5, § 9. 

, Pr. 287. By Mr. Mann. £84 

Civ. serv. Com., constit’l body, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 673. By Mr. Rhees. 657 

Civ. serv. com’ns, munic., abol., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 674. By Mr. Rhees. 658 

Civil serv. employees, organiz’ns, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 284. By Mr. Adams. 281 

Civ. Serv. employees, pensions, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 301. By Mr. M. Saxe. 297 

Claims, approv., deleg., power, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 738. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 214 

Claims agt. state, regul. actions, art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 15. By Mr. Brackett. 15 

Claims vs. state, determine, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 320. By Mr. Ostrander. 316 

Claims, private, local bills for, art. 3, § 19. 

Pr. 732. By Mr. Tanner. 550 

Common sch’l system, free, providing, art. 

9, § 1. 

Pr. 103. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 103 

Condemnation, cities, excess, prohib. art. 1, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 325. By Mr. Dunmore. 321 

Condem’n, excess, etc., regul., art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons.. 500 

Condemnation, local assessment, etc., art. 

1, §§ 6-7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Condm’n, power of, delegating, art. 1, $ 6. 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank. 442 

Conserv’n advis. bd., regul., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 584. By Mr. Angell.. 569 

Conservation bd., establish, art. 7, new § 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

Constit’l amend’ts, passage, art. 14, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 236. By Mr. Low. 234 

Constit’l amend’ts, pass’g, art. 14, new § 2. 

Pr. 554. By Mr. Foley. 539 

Constit’l amendments, passing, art. 14, §§ 1, 

2, 3 and new §. 

Pr. 855. By Future Amendments Com. . 715 
Const, amend., publish, art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 214. By Mr. Ahearn. 213 

Const’n, amend., submitting, conven., art. 

14, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 260. By Mr. Cobb. 257 

Constit’l Convention, referendum, art. 14, 
n 1-3. 

Pr. 424. By Mr. Barnes. 412 

Constit’l Conven., delegates, art. 14, § 2. 

Pr. 402. By Mr. Curran. 395 

Contagious diseases, laws regul., art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 701. By Mr. Donovan .. 681 


Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 

Counties, annexing territory, art. 3, | 5. 

Pr. 411. By Mr. Coles. 399 

County cts., transfer of actions, art. 6 , § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 476 

County gov’t, forms of, changing, art. 3, 

§§ 26, 27; art. 10 ,. § 2 . 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 721 
Counties, gov’t, opt’l plans, art. 3, new |. 

Pr. 539. By Mr. Coles. 524 

Cotinty gov’t, optional plans, art. 3, §§ 26, 

27, and new §. 

Pr. 726. By Mr. Barrett. 462 

Counties, opt’l forms of gov’t, art. 10, §§- 
• 1, 2, and 2 new §§; art. 3, §§ 26, 27 rep. 

Pr. 203. By Mr. Barrett. 202 

, County judges, courts of sessions, regul., 
art. 6 , § 14. 

Pr. 14. By Mr. C. H. Young. 14 

Co. judges, increasing number, art. 6 , H 14. 

Pr. 61. By Mr. Frank. 61 

County judges, surr., salary, art. 6 , § 15. 

Pr. 577. By Mr. Rosch. 562 

County officers, elec’n, terms, art. 10, § 1 . 

Pr. 609. By Mr. Parmenter. 594 

County, town, village, officers, art. 10, § 2 . 

Pr. 323. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 319 

Ct. of appeals, etc., juris., art. 6 , §§ 1-13. 

Pr. 306. By Mr. Gladding. 302 

Court of appeals opinion, art. 6 , new §. 

Pr. 559. By Mr. Parsons. 544 

Court proc., regul., art. 6 , new § 2 -a. 

Pr. 183. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 183 

Court procedure, revise, art. 3 , new §. 

Pr. 437. By Mr. Sargent.\ .. .. 425 

Court procedure, rules, fixi., art. 6 , new §. 

Pr. 720. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 690 

Co.urts, inf., local, juris., art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Cts., loc., claims ct., judges, terms, art. 6 , 

§ 

Pr. 480. By Mr. Cobb.. 468 

Courts, local, justice of peace, art. 6 , §§ 17, 

22, 23. 

Pr. 163. By Mr. Leggett. 163 

Courts, magistrates, local, cities, regul., 
art. 6 , §§ 17, 18. 

Pr. 551. By Mr. Brenner. 536 

Criminal offenses, ans. for, reg., art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 241. By Mr. Austin. 239 . 

Death, actions for, damages, limiting, art. 

1 , § 18. 

Pr. 18. By Mr. Aiken. 18 

Debts, state, creating, etc., art. 7, §§ 2, 4, 

5, 11. 

Pr. 739. By Finance Com. 693 

Debts, state, laws, creating, art. 7, § 4 . 

Pr. 592. By Mr. Cullinan. 577 

Debts, state, regulating, art. 7, §§ 2 , 4 , 5 , 

11 , 12 . 

Pr. 784. By Finance Com. 705 

Debts, state, serial bonds, appro, for, art. 7 , 

§ 4. 

Pr. 714. By Mr. Austin.!. 509 

Delegating, prohib. except to munic. corp., 
art. 3, new § 19. 

Pr. 58. By Mr. Buxbaum. 58 

Delegation, powers prohib., art. 3, J 1. 

Pr. 253. By Mr. Griffin. 250 





























































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Powers oi —Continued: Int. 

Directors, elec., cumulative vot’g, art. 8, fi 3. 

Pr. 664'. By Mr. E. N. Smith.... 

District cts., limited juris., uniform, art. 6, 
§ 18. 

Pr. 610. By Mr. Parmenter. 

Documents, product’n of, regul., art. 1, { 6. 

Pr. 11. 'By Mr. C. H. Young.'. . 

Domestic rel. cts., 1st cl. cities, art. 6, new 
§ 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 

Education bds., cities, appointing, regul., 
art. 0, new §. 

Pr. 483. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Education bds., cities, state system, art. 9, 

S 1. 

Pr. 415. By Mr. Latson. 

Educ. of children, state function, art. 9, § 1. 

Pr. 820. By Education Com. 

Election bds., officers, etc., reg., art. 2, § 6. 

Pr. 228. By Mr. Newburger. 

Election frauds, laws, regul., art. 2, § 2. 

Pr. 668. By Mr. Cobb. 

Elec, laws, absent electors, etc., art. 2, § 4. 

Pr. 844. By Suffrage Com. 

Elec, laws, enact., two-thirds vote, art. 2, § 4 

Pr. 165. By Mr. Lincoln.'.•.. 

Election laws, not to favor parties, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 752. By Legislative Powers Com... 
Election laws, voters, speak English, art. 
2, new §. 

Pr. 776. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Election laws, uniform, art. 2, § 4. 

Pr. 468. By Mr. T, F. Smith. 

Elec, laws, uniform, bi-partisan bds., art. 2, 
§§ 4, 6. 

Pr. 509. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 

Election officers, com’tive ex’ms, art. 2, § 6. 

Pr. 238. By Mr. Bernstein. 

Elections, registrat’n, voting, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Elections, absent electors, vote, law for, 
art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By INIr. Mann. 

Employees, laws for, art. 1, § 19 and new §. 

Pr. 417. By Mr. Parsons. 

Employees, protection, laws for, art. 1, § 19. 
and new §. 

Pr. 197. By Mr. A. E. Smit]j. 

Employees, protect’n, provided for, art. 3, 
new S. 

Pr. 765. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 

Excess condemn., certain cases, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Excise department, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 625. By Mr. Whipple. 

Extra sess., calling; reg. sess., annual 
budget, art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 156. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Extra sessions, own motion, art. 4, § 4; 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 819. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Fiscal year, fixing, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 158. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Fines, penalties, dolejrate power to prose¬ 
cute, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 70. By Mr. Griffin. 

Forests, Com’rs of, regul., etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 


Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 

Forests, condemn’n by state, etc., art. 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 558. By Mr. Parsons. 543 

Forest lands, timber, sale, cutting, regul., 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 247. By Mr. Austin. 128 

Forest preserve, cutting timber, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce . 219 

Forest preserve lands, use of, new art; 
art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

Forests, laws regulating, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 154. By Mr. Dunlap. 154 

F(jrest preserve, camp sites, roads, foresta¬ 
tion, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 37. Bv Mr. R. B. Smith. 37 

Forests, water com., juris, fix, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 492. By Mr. Dow. 480 

Forests, wt’r storage, etc., regul., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

Franchises, grant in perpetuity, prohib., 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 

I^ranchises, indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, 

§ 30 new. 

jPr. 563. By Mr. Low. 548 

Funded debts, muni’l’ties, reg., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 272 

Gambling, book-making, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 660. By Mr. Brackett. 644 

Gambling, constit’l prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 659. By Mr. Brackett. 643 

Governor, Speaker, etc., succession, regul. 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 393. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 386 

Hamilton County, not to be aboL, art. 3, 

§ 5. 

Pr. 425. By Mr. Dunlap. 413 

Health, Dept, of, maint’n, art. 8, new § 16. 

Pr. 304. By Mr. Dunlap. 300 

Health Dept., maintain, tax for, art. 8, new 
§ 16. 

Pr. 684. By Mr. Brackett . 668 

Guilty plea, judgment by magis., regul., 
art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 309. By Mr. Kirby. 305 

H’way sinking fund, laws for, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 99. By Mr. Wagner. 99 

Highways, appro., appor’n, art. 7, § 13 new. 

Pr. 811. By Mr. Westwood . 479 

Highway debts, contrib., laws, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 533. By Mr. Lincoln. 521 

Highways, cost, apportioning, art. 7, §§ 4, 

11,12. 

Pr. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 469 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12 new. 

Pr. 568. By Mr. Eisner. 553 

Horae rule, cities, art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 724. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 511 

Home rule for cities, constitutional grant, 
art. 12. 

Pr. 851. By Cities Com.‘712 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12, §§ 1-3. 

Pr. 187. By Mr. Sanders. 187 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12. 

Pr. 283. By Mr. J. L. O’Brian. 280 

Home rule, cities, villages, art. 12. 

Pr. 335. By Mr. Franchot. 331 


No. 

648 

595 

11 

443 

471 

403 

698 

226 

652 

711 

165 

699 

686 

456 

497 

236 

42 

285 

405 

196 

194 

617 

610 

156 

291 

158 

70 

375 




























































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Powers of — Continued : Iiit. No, 

Home rule, cities, villages, charter, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 753. By Legislative Powers Com. . 700 
Home rule, cities, villages, etc., art. 3, §§ 

26, 27, and new §; art. 10, § 2; art.. 12, 

§§ 1 , 2 . 


Pr. 535. By Mr. Low. 313 

Home rule, cities, art. 12, § 13. 

Pr; 629. By Mr. Weed. 613 

Home rule, cities, op. plans, art. 12, §§ 1-3, 
new §§ 4-6. 

Pr. 796. By Mr. Francliot. 662 

Home rule, cities, vil., art. 12, §§ 1-3, and 
new §§ 4, 6. 

Pr. 698. By Mr. Cobb. 650 

Indian records, preservation, art. 1, § 15. 

Pr. 451. By Mr. Lindsay. 439 

Industrial board, regul., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 273. By Mr. Parsons...270 

Industrial coimcil, depts., powers, art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Inferior local courts, juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 200. By Mr. Bunce. 208 

Inferior local cts., cities, art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 255. By Mr. Dunmore., 252 

Inferior local cts., estab., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 72. By Mr. Barrett. 72 

Inferior local cts., juris., art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 259. By Mr. Cobb. 256 

Inferior local cts., juris., regul., art. 6, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 388. By Mr. Angell. 381 

Inferior local cts., jur. in co’ty, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 256. By Mr. Dunmore.253 

Inferior local cts., territorial juris., art. 6, 

‘ § 18. 

Pr. 107. By Mr. Bockes. 107 

Initiative, referendum, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 498. By Mr. Dahm. 486 

Initiative, etc., laws, tak’g effect, art. 3, § 1. 

Pr. 676. By Mr. Dabm. 660 

Judges, nomination, regul., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 511. By Mr. Parsons. 499 

Judicial officers, laws abolishing, art. 6, 

§ 22. 

Pr. 412. By Mr. Adams. 400 

Judicial officers, removal, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 469. By Mr. Wagner. 457 

Judiciary, revising generally, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Juries, eliminate, certain cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 281. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 278 

Juries, exempt’s from, prohib., art. .3, new 
§ 30. 

Pr. 217. By Mr. Wickersham. 216 

Juries, number, verdict, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 235. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 233 

Juries, number, waiving, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 295. By Mr. Leggett. 292 

Juries, verdict by regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 218. By Mr. Wickersham. 217 

Juries, verdict of, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 271. By Mr. Mann. 268 

Juries, verdict, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 354. By Mr. Angell. 350 

Jurors, com’r of, appointment, etc., art. 3, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 44. By Mr. Brenner. 44 


Powers of — Continued: Int.No. 

Jurors, addit’l, to fill vacancy, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 350. By Mr. Wiggins.. 346 

Jury duty, exemp. from, abok, art. 3, § 30, 
new. 

Pr, 314. By Mr. Brenner. 310 

Jury duty, state com’r of jurors, etc., art. 5, 
new §. ' 

Pr. 672. By Mr. Green. 656 

Jury, fix punishment, regul., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 240. By Mr. Griffin. 238 

Jury, of 6 or more, providing for, art. 1, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 45. By Mr. Bayes. 45 

Jury trials, regul., limiting, etc., art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 132. By Mr. Weed. 132 

Justice of peace, masters county cts., art. 

6, § 17. 

Pr. 114. By Mr. Kirby. 114 

Justices of peace, qualifiers, regul., art. 6, 

§ 17. 

Pr. 263. By Mr. Coles. 260 

Juvenile delinquents, laws for, art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 553. By Mr. Ahearn.. 538 

Labor, actions vs. corp’ns for, time, art. 8, 
new.§, 

Pr, 341. By Mr. Bayes... 337 

Labor, 8-hour day, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 401, By Mr. Curran. 394 

Labor, not a commodity, laws, art, 1, § 6. 

Pr. 363. By Mr. Wagner. 358 

Laws, classific’n, index, etc., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 280. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 277 

Labor com’r, workmen’s compensation com., 
regul,, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 617. By Mr. O’Connor. 602 

Land Division sup. ct., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves. 527 

Lands under water, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

Laws, complete in themselves, art. 3, § 17. 

Pr. 700. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 275 

Laws, for county in a city, art. 3, § 26; art. 

12, § 2. 

Pr. 318. By Mr. Wiggins. 314 

Laws, taking effect, time of, art. 3, § 17. 

Pr. 328. By Mr. Dunmore. 324 

Laws, referen. to voters, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 571. By Mr. Eisner. 556 

Laws, sale off; judicial decisions, public’n, 
art. 6, § 21. 

Pr, 327. By Mr. Dunmore. 323 

Laws, unreasonable, prohib., art. 3, new §. 

j Pr, 589. By Mr. Dunmore. 574 

j Legislative powers, regul. generally, art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com... 696 
Legislative powers, restricting generally, 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Libel, reparative publicity, etc., art. 1, § 8. 

Pr, 694. By Mr. Quigg. 677 

Liquor, damage by intoxicated persons, 
art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 397. By Mr. Rhees. 390 

Local bills for drainage prohib,, art. 3, 

■ § 18. 

Pr. 54. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 54 

Mandatory payroll laws, prohib., art. 3, 

I new §. 

Pr. 463, By Mr. Baldwin. 451 




























































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Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 

Manufacturing in dwellings, regul., art. 

3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 407 

Mfg., in dwellings, proliib., art. 3, new 1?. 

Pr. 196. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 195 

Manufacturing, unreasonable laws, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 751. By Mr. Dunrnore. 573 

IMilitia, equipment, preparation, art. 11, § 3. 

Pr. 548. By Mr. Latson. 533 

Militia, officers, qualifications, regul., art. 

11,.§5. 

Pr. 794. By Mr. Latson. 534 

Militia, roster of, laws for, art. 11, new §. 

Pr. 545. By Mr. Latson. 530 

Minimum wage laws, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 791. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 193 

Monied corp’ns, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 595. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 580 

IMonied corp’ns, regul., art. 8, § 4, and re¬ 
peal §§ 5, 6, 7, 8. 

Pr. 486. By Mr. Leggett. 474 

ISIonopolies, prohibiting, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 504. By Mr. Sargent. 492 

Motor bus lines, franchises, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 581. By Mr. Mealy. 566 

Moving pictures, not to be censored, art. 1, 

§ 8. 

Pr. 101. By Mr. Eisner. 101 

Municipal prop., tax, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 493 

Municipal water supply, use state lands, 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By, Mr. Baldwin. 312 

N. Y. City, courts, juris., etc., art. 6, §§ 14, 17. 

Pr. 216. By Mr. Steinbrink. 215 

N. Y. County, gen. sess. ct., abolish, art. 6, 

§ 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr. C. H. Young. 251 

N. Y. City, courts, reorganizing, art. 6, 

§ 14. 

Pr. 628. By Mr. Wickersham. 377 

N. Y. City, munic. ct., juris., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 637‘ By Mr. Steinbrink.. 621 

N. Y. City to be single county, art. 10, § 1 
and new §; art. 12, § 3. 

Pr. 461. By Mr. Baldwin. 449 

Officers, public, pay, fix, change, art. 3, 

§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6, § 15; 
art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr. Mereness... 380 

Offices, abolish’g, transfer of powers, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 248. By Mr. C. A. Webber. 245 

Offices, depts., limiting, art. 5, new § 10. 

Pr. 186. By Mr. Lincoln. 186 

Official referees, powers, regul., art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. JI. Young. 463 

Officials, public, extra compen., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith". 289 

Officials, public, extra compen., prohib., 
art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. 379 

Officials, whose elec, not provided for, art. 

10, § 2. 

Pr. 146. By Mr. M. Saxe. 146 

Officials, local, pay, legis. not to fix, art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 268. By Mr. Mann. 


Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 


Pardons, bd. of, providing, art. 8, §§ 11, 12; 
repeal art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 771. By Mr. Marshall. 269 

Pensions, creating, actuarial, basis, art. 

7, new §. 

Pr. 703. By Mr. Low. 683 

Pensions, granting, referendum, art. 7, new 
§ 13. 

Pr. 176. By Mr. Cullinan. 176 

Physicians, pub. insti’ns, pay, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 689. By Mr. Leitner. 672 

Police, providing free transp’n, art. 13, § 5. 

Pr. 205. By Mr. Wiggins. 204 

Private lands, forest preserve, timber, art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 84. By Mr. E. N. Smith_ .... 84 

Privileges, minimum wage, laws granting, 
prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 808. By Legislative Powers Com... 701 
Prize-fights, not to be authorized, art. 1, § 9. 

.Pr. 139. By Mr. Quigg. 139 

Property, dangerous to health, etc., tak¬ 
ing, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister. 671 

Public officers, pay, no increase during 
term, art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness. 36 

Public Serv. Com., laws, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 494. By Mr. Coles.?. 48*4 

Public Service Com. opinion, requiring, art. 

5, new §. 

Pr. 856. By Public Utilities Com. 706 

Pub. Serv. Com’rs, Supt. Banks, Insur., , 
sal. art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 336. By Mr. O’Connor. ^32 

Pub. L^tilities Com., laws regul., new art. 

Pr. 718. By Mr. Olcott. 249 

Public utilities, rates, laws fixing, art. 3, 
new § 19. • 

Pr. 162. By Mr. Mandeville. 162 

Recall, providing for, art. 13, new § 7. 

Pr. 572. By Mr. Eisner. 557 

Records, supt. of, counties, providing, art. 

10, § 1. 

Pr. 456. By Mr. Reeves. 444 

Self-governm’t, cities, villages, art. 12, §§ 

1-3; art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner... 68 

Senate dists., altering, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 233. By Mr. Sheehan. 231 

Senate dists., reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 262. By Mr. Betts. 259 

Senate dists., reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 302. By Mr. Bernstein. 298 

Senators, number to county, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 722. By Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 673 

Sinking funds, surplus, use of, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 200. By Mr. Blauvelt. 199 

Sinking fund, surplus, using, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 645. By Mr. Parsons. 629 

State col. and univ., provide, art. 9, new 
§ 2. 

Pr. 102. By Mr. Unger... 102 

State constab., prohib., art. 4, §§ 4, 6, and 
new §. 

Pr. 404. By Mr. Curran. 397 

State Depts., reorganizing, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 

6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 


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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Powers of — Contkiued: Int. No. 

State highways, debts for, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 442. By Mr. Heaton. 430 

State hospitals, control, regul., art. 8 , § 11. 

Pr. 827. By Mr. Steinbrink. 371 

State debts, sinking fund for, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 100. By Mr. Wagner. lOU 

State depts., reorganizing, art. 5, § 2 . 

Pr. 80. By Mr. E. N. Smith.. 80 

Statistics, judicial, providing, art. 6 , § 21. 

Pr. 466 By Mr. Baldwin. 454 

Stock exchanges, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 596. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 581 

Stocks, produce, markets, regul., art. 8 , 

§ 4, new. 

Pr. 395. By Mr. Deyo. 388 


Strikes, lockouts, regul., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 204. By Mr. Rosch._ 203 

Supreme ct. com’rs, certain counties, art. 6 , 


§ 2. 

Pr. 464. By Mr. Baldwin. 462 

Sup. ct. justices, power to increase abol., 
art. 0, § 1. 

Pr. 65. By Mr. Steinbrink. 65 

Supervisors, delegate powers to, arf;. 3, § 27. 

Pr. 291. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 288 

Surrogates, powers, etc., regul., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 499. By Mr. Reeves. 487 

Tax officials, appoint, elect, etc., art. 10, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 385. By Mr. M. Saxe. 378 

Taxation, regul., art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 636. By Mr. Steinbrink. 620 

Taxation, counties, dept, assess., collect’n, 
art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 202. By Mr. Barrett. 201 

Taxation, laws regulating, new art. 

Pr. 834. By Taxation Com. 679 

Taxes, etc., del. power to col., art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 286. By Mr. Mann. 283 

Taxes, munic. prop., outside limits, art. 3, 
new § 30. 

Pr. 4i41. By Mr. Heaton. 429 

Taxes, state, direct, levy, limit., art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 120. By Mr. Baldwin. 120 

Titles, registering, laws re, art. 10, new §. 

Pr. 60. By Mr. Coles. 60 

Unemploved, relief, providing, art. 8, new § 

Pr. 399. By Mr. Curran. 392 

Voting, compulsory, laws for, art. 2, new §. 

Pr. 274. By Mr. Donovan.271 

Water power, storage, lands for, regul.. art. 

1, § 7. 

Pr. 524. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 512 

Water, water pow., use, regul! art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 487. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 475 

Woman suffrage, women’s sentiment, art. 2, 
new §. 

Pr. 389, By Mr. Dunmore. 382 

Workmen’s compensation laws, enact, art. 

1, § 19. 

Pr. 383. By Mr. Foley.. 376 

Workmen’s compen. laws, etc., art. 1, new § 

19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 554 

Workmen’s compen. laws, etc., art. 1, § 18. 

Pr. 418. By Mr. Parsons. 406 

Workmen’s comp, laws, enacting, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 400. By Mr. Curran. 393 


Powers of — Continued: Int. No. 

Workmen’s compen. laws, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 420. By Mr, Parsons. 408 

Workmen’s compen. laws, art. 1 , § 19, and 
new §. 

Pr. 434. By Mr. Curran. 422 

W orkmen’s compensation law, enacting, art. 

1, § 19. 


Pr, 23. By Mr. Aiken. 23 

Workmen’s compen., occupational diseases, 
art. 1, §§ 18, 19. 

Pr. 865. By Industrial Interests Com. . 714 
Quorum, tempo, presid. officers, art. 3, § 10. 

Pr. 841. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 290 

Sessions, after 3(J-day period, art. 4, § 9 . 

Pr. 631. By Mr. Buxbaum. 615 

Sessions, after 30-day period, art. 4, § 9. ' 

Pr. 632. By Mr. Buxbaum. 616 

Sessions, biennial, art. 10 , § 6 . 

Pr. 167. By Mr. Pelletreau. 167 

Sessions, biennial; member, 2 -yr. terms, art. 

3, §§ 2 , 6 . 

Pr. 30. By Mr. Richards. 30 


Sessions, biennial, except for appro., art. 3 , 
§§ 2 , 6 . 


Pr. 93. By Mr. Standart. 93 

Sessions, close of, odd-numbered yrs., art. 10, 

§ 6 . 


Pr. 432. By Mr. Wadsworth. 420 

Sessions, date of beginning, art 10 , § 6 . 

Pr. 476. By Mr. Wiggins. 464 

Sessions, everv month except July, August, 
art. 10 ,‘§ 6 . 

Pr. 654. By Mr. Hinman. 638 

State officers, seats in legis., art. 5, § 2.- 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 


LIQUORS 

Damage by intoxicated persons, liab., art. 1 , 
new §. 

Pr. 397. By Mr. Rhees. 390 

Excise, com’r oC appointm’t, etc., art, 5 , §§ 

1, 2, 5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. . 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Excise dept., constit’l office, art. 5 , new §. 

Pr. 625. By Mr. Whipple. 610 

Excise, dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5 , new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Excise dept., juris, treasury div., art. 5 , § 1 . 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Injuries resulting from, art. 1 , § 19. 

Pr. .383. By Mr. Foley*.. 376 

Intoxication, injuries from, art. 1 , new § 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 554 


M 


Magistrates, juris, within county, art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 106. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Mamif. in dwellin.^s, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 

Manufacturing, ‘in dwellings, regul., art. 3 , 
new §. 

Pr. 196. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 

Manufacturing, ‘ unreasonable laws, art. 3 , 
new §. 

Pr. 751. By Mr. Dunmore. 


106 

407 

195 

573 


























































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143 


Int. No. 

Margins, dealing upon, prohibited, art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo.'..387 

Markets, stocks, bonds, produce, incorp’n, art. 

8, new § 4. 

Pr. 395. By Mr. Deyo. 388 

Marriages, annul. Domestic Rel. ct., art. 6, 
new § 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 443 

Measuring, offices for, estab., art. 5, repeal 
§ 8. 

Pr. 597. By Mr. K. B. Smith.682 

Mediation, dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Mental deficiency, com’r of, art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 693 

Merchandise, weighing, etc., state offices for, 
art. 5, § 8. 

Pr. 860. By Mr. Franchot. 131 

Money, bills, notes, registry, art. 8, § 4, and 
repeal, §§ 6, 6, 7, 8. 

Pr. 486. By Mr. Leggett. 474 

Monopolies, prohibiting, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 504. By Mr. Sargent. 492 

Motor bus lines, franchises, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 581. By Mr. Mealy... 566 

Moving pictures. (See “Theaters.”) 
Municipalities, building zones, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Municipal corp’ns, prop., taxing, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 493 

Munic. ct., estate, estab., juris., etc., art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves. 308 

Municipal loans, proceeds, use of, art. 7, new 
§ 13. 

Pr. 6. By Mr. Parsons. 6 

Municipal self-government, art. 12, §§ 1-3; 
art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner. 68 

Municipal water supply, lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219 

Munic. water sup., state lands, use, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 

Municipal water supply, state lands, art. 7, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 382. Bv Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Municipalities, funded debts of, art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 272 

Municipalities, water supply, forest lands, new 
art; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

MILITARY 

Adj.-General, major generals, aides, art. 11, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 761. By Mr. Latson. 531 

Aerial forces, state militia, art. 11, $ 3. 

Pr. 413. By Mr. Bannister. 401 

Dept, of defense, estab., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

Division of. art. 4. new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Exemptions, Quakers, Friends, etc., art. 1, 
new S. 

Pr. 452. By Mr. Coles... 440 

Jurisdiction,’ civ., crim. limiting, art. 1, S 4. 

Pr. 435. By Mr. Curran. 423 

Jurisdiction over civilian, limit, art. 1, §§ 

- 6 7 ^— —__-— 

Pr. ’870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 


Int. No. 

Major Generals, appoint., officers, removal, 
art. 4, § 4; art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 8, § 12; 
art. 10, § 9; art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, 
repeal §§ 3, 4, 7 and renumber §§ 5, 0, 

8, 9. 


Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo.. . 472 

Military serv., compulsory, art. 11, § 3. 

Pr. 675. By Mr. Tuck . 659 

Military service, peace times, not compulsory, 
art. 11, § 1. 

'Pr. 544. By Mr. Bayes. 529 

Militia, comp, of, art. 11, § 1. 

Pr. 763. By Mr. Latson. 532 

Militia, division of, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Militia, division of, estab., art. 4, new; art. 

5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Militia, equipment, preparation, art. 11, § 3. 

Pr. 548. By Mr. Latson. 533 

Militia, jury exemptions, art. 6. 

Pr. 850.- By Judiciary Com. 718 

Militia, roster of, etc., art. 11, new §. 

Pr. 545. By Mr. Latson. 530 

Officers, absence without leave, art. 11, § 6. 

Pr. 764. By Mr. Latson. 535 

Officers, qualific'ns, art. 11, § 5. 

Pr. 794. By Mr. Latson. 534 

State constab. prohib. labor disputes, etc., 
art. 4, §§ 4, 6, and new §. 

Pr. 404. By Mr. Curran. 397 


N 

Names, chang’g, bills for, regul., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham.. 624 

National Gd., civ. serv., removal, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 266. By Mr. Heyman.263 

Negligence actions, damages, limiting, art. 1, 

§ 18. 

Pr. 18. By Mr. Aiken. 18 

Nominations (see “ Elections ”). 

Notaries, legis. as, during term, art. 3, 8 7. 

Pr. 206. By Mr. Wiggins. 205 

Notaries public, members of legis., art. 3, 

§ § 7 8 

Pr. 130. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 130 

Notaries pub., engage in other busi., art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 150. By Mr. Burkan. 150 


NEW YORK CITY 

Assembly dists., aldermen to fix, art. 3, § 5. 

Pr. 339. By Mr. Buxbaum. 335 

Assemblymen, districts., elec’n, etc., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 602. By Mr. Green. 587 

Assembly districts, fixing, art. 10, § 6; art. 3, 

§§ 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and repeal § 7. 

Pr. 869. By Legislative Organiz. Com.. 722 
Assemblymen, increasing, art. 3, §8 1, 6-12, 

14, 15, 16. 20, 25; §§ 3, 4, 13 repeal. 


Pr. 232. By Mr. Kirk. 230 

Bronx, additional ludge, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

f ' ^.lemnation procedr’ te, regul., art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

-r 870. By Bill < Rights Com. 720 


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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. Ko. 

Coroners, terms, regul., art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 711. By County, Town & Village 


Officers Com. 691 

County officers, employees, pay, fix, art. 3, § 

26; art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 318. By Mr. Wiggins. 314 

County officers, 4-year terms, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith.. ... 435 

Courts: 

All, merged sup. ct., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 5-7, 9, 

12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood.. 611 

City court, continue, juris., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 422. By Mr. C. H. Young. 410 

City court, general sessions, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

City ct., gen. sess., etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 152. By C. H. Young. 152 

City ct., merge in sup. ct.,.art. 6, § 5. 

Pr. 149. By Mr. Burkan. 149 

Dom. Rel., estab., art. 6, new § 15-a. 

Pr. 455. By Mr. Adams. 443 

Gen. sessions, city ct., etc., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr. C. H. Young. 251 

Gen. Sess., continuing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 170. By Mr. Baldwin. 170 

Gen. sess., legis. may abol., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 14. By Mr."^C. H. Young. 14 

General sessions, abolishing, art. 6, § 5. 

Pr. 7. By Mr. Olcott.. . 7 

Mimic., continuing, etc., art. 6, § 17. 

Pr. 637. By Mr. Steinbrink. 621 

Municipal, county, city, merging, art. 6, 

§§ 14, 17. 

Pr. 216. By Mr. Steinbrink. 215 

Revising generally, art. 6. 

Pr. 850'. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Special sessions, con., etc., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 702. By Mr. Wagner. 682 

Superior Court, estab., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 628. By Mr. Wickersham. 377 

District attys., N. Y^., Kings, terms, etc., art. 

10, § 1. 

Pr. 229. By Mr. Newburger. 227 

First judic. dept., N. Y., Bronx Co’s, art. 6, 

■§ 11. 

Pr. 421. By Mr. F. Martin. 409 

First judic. dept., N. Y., Bronx, art. 6, §§ 2, 7. 

Pr. 457. By Mr. Bayes.'445 

Kings county judges, number, art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 61. By Mr. Frank. 61 

Kings, CO. ct., merge in sup. ct., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 62. By Mr. Adams. 62 

Laws affecting counties in, mayor’s approval, 
art. 12, § 2. 

Pr. 380. By Mr. Mann. 373 

Legislators, maximum number, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 697. By Legislative Organiz. Com. .. 680 
N. Y^. Co., comprise whole city, art. I'O, § 1 
and new §; art. 12, § 3. 

Pr. 461. By Mr. Baldwin. 449 

Public fran., condemning, art. 1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Mr. M. Saxe. 674 

Public utilities, sinking fund bonds, art. 8, 

§ 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Records, supt., N. Y., Bronx, Kings, Queens, 
art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 456. By Mr. Reeves. 444 


Int. Xo. 

Senators, maximum number, art. 3, § 4. 

^Pr. 302. By Mr. Bernstein. 298 

Senators, maximum number, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 722. By Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 673 

Sup. ct. com’rs, counties, 700,000, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 464. By Mr. Baldwin.. . 452 

Voters, 4 mos. residence in city, art. 2, § 1. 

Pr. 379. By Mr. Dahm. . . 372 

Water supply, Catskill forest lands, use of, * 
new art.; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com......... 708 


0 . 

Oaths, official, false, art. 13, § 1. 

Pr. 624. By Mr. Lincoln.. 609 

Oath, official, corrupt practice clause, abol., 
art. 13,1. 

Pr. 83. By Mr. Leggett. 88 

Offices, abolish, by legis., art. 3. new §. 

Pr. 248. By Mr. C. A. Webber. 245 

Officers appointed by gov., term of, art. 10, § 3. 

Pr. 111. By Mr. R. B. Smith. Ill 

Officers, ,public, pay, change during term, art. 

3, § 28. 

Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness. .. 36 

Officials, appoint, by Gov., term, art. 4, new §. 

Pr. 296. By Mr. Leggett..293 

Officials, counties, state, compen., art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 89. By Mr. Kirby. 89 

Officials, elec, not provided for, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 211. By Mr. Sanders. 210 

Officials, elective, recall, art. 13, new § 7. 

Pr. 572. By Mr. Eisner. 557 

Officials, impeach., regul., art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 518 

Officials, impeachm’t, powers pend, trial, art. 

6, § 13. 

Pr. 155. By Mr. Bunce. 155 

Officials, pay, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, 

§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6, § 15; 
art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr. Mereness. 380 

Officials, public, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, 

§ ‘38. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. 379 

Officials, public, compen., fixing, etc., art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 268. By Mr. Mann. 265 

Officials, public, excess com'pen., prohib., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com. . . . 696 
Officials, public, extra compen., prohib., art. 3, 

§ 28 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 289 

Officials,'Pub., priv. busi. prohib., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 150. By Mr. Burkan. 150 

Officials, pub., receiving pensions, art. 10, new 
§ 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Officials, public, testifying as to own conduct, 
art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 76. By Mr. Quigg. 76 

Officials, receiving pensions, pay, limit, art. 10, 
new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr, F. Martin.. 505 

‘ Officials, rem., certiorari, art. 10, § 1, and 
new §. 

Pr. 472, By Mr. F. Martin.;. 460 

























































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Int. No. 

Officials, state, removal by Gov., art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 567. By Mr. Eisner... 552 

Official ref., restricting, art. 6, new § 24. • 

Pr. 190. By Mr. Steinbrink. 189 

Officials, whose elec, not provided for, art. 10' 

§ 2 . 

Pr. 146. By Mr. M. Saxe. 146 

Old age, ins., art. 1, new § 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner. 554 


P 

Pardon and parole, state bd., creating, new §. 


Pr. 82. By Mr. Brackett. 82 

Pardons, Bd. of, creating, art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 237. By Mr. Bernstein.. 235 

Pardons, State Bd. of, art. 8, §§ 11, 12; re¬ 
peal art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 771. By Mr. Marshall.269 

Pardons, state board, art. 8, § 11, and repeal¬ 
ing art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 643. By Mr. Bell . 627 


Pardons, where jury fixes penalty, art. 1, §§ 

6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Bights Com....'... 720 
Parole, board of, art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 


Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Parties, political, pref., etc., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Party conventions. (See “ Elections.”) 

Penalties, del. powers to col., art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 286. By Mr. Mann. 283 

Penalties, delegating legis. power to enforce, 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 70. By Mr. Griffin. 70 

Pensioners, in civ. serv., art. 10, new § 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Pensions, civil service, veterans, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 261. By Mr. Green... 258 

Pensions, officials receiv., limit pay, art. 

10, new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

Pensions, old age, etc., art. 1, new § 19. 

Pr. 569. By Mr. Eisner.. 554 

Pensions, state employees, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 301. By Mr. M. Saxe..297 

Pens’n, by legis., referendum, art. 7, new § 13. 

Pr. 176. By Mr. Cullinan . 176 

Pensions, state, munic., regul., art, 7, new §. 

Pr. 703. By Mr. Low. 683 

Physicians (see “Health”) 

Police, free transportat’n, art. 13, § 5. 

Pr. 205. By Mr. Wiggins. 204 


Poor, county, town, powers, art. 3, §§ 26, 27; 
art. io, § 2. 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Goy. Com. 721 
Press, liberty of, art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 614. By Mr. Dahm. 599 

Private property, taking. (See “Property.”) 
Privileges, special classes, prohibiting, art. 3, • 
new §. 

Pr. 808. By Legislative Powers Com... 701 
Prize-fights, prohib., art. 1, 9. 

Pr. 139. By Mr. Quigg. ... 139 

Prob. Com., const, body, art. 8, § 11. 

Pr. 580. By Mr. Clearwater. 565 

Prob. div., sup. ct., estab., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 1. By Mr. Beeves. 1 


Proport’n representat’ns. (See “Elections.”) 
Produce, dealing on margins prohib., art. 1, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo. 387 

Produce markets, incorporating, art. 8, § 4 , 

. new. 

Pr. 395. By Mr. Deyo...,. 388 

Produce, weighing, etc., state offices for, art. 

5, repeal § 8. 

Pr. 860. By Mr. Franchot. 131 

Property, taxat’n of. (See “Taxation.”) 
Prostitut’n, dists., cond. bldgs, art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

Public defenders, counties, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 219. By Mr. Shipman .. 218 

Public improv., bonds for, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 

Pub. imp., debts for, instal., art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 489. By Mr. Lincoln. 477 

Pub. imp., local assessments, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 496. By Mr. Frank. 484 

Pub. instit’ns, com’r of, etc., art. 5, §§ 1, 3, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Pub. works, com’r of, appointm’t, etc., art. 5, 

§§ 1, 2, 5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Public works, dept, of, estab., art. 5, { 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith,. 86 

Public works, etc., for unemployed, art. 8, 
new §. 

Pr.- 399. By Mr. Curran. 392 

Publications,'dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 


Public Works, dept, of., art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Pub. wks., div. of, estab., art. 4 new; art. 5 
new. 


Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Public wks., div. of, executive dept., art. 5, 

§ 1 . 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Pub. wks., div., state govt., art. 4 new; art. 5 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Public works, supt. of, abol., etc., art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 416. By Mr. Latson. 404 

Public works supt., abolish, art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 446. By Mr. B. B. Smith. 434 

Pub. works, supt., abol., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth..... 645 

Pub. works, supt., abol., art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 593. By Mr. Cullinan.... 578 

Pub. works, supt., appoint, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 555 

Public works, siipt., approval appro., art 3, 

§ 20 . 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Pub. works, supt., appointed by Gov., art. 4, 

§ 4; art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 10, § 9; art. 


8, § 12; art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal 
S§ 3, 4, 7 and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo . 472 

Public Works, Supt. canal bd., art. 5, § 5. 

Pr. 760. By Mr. Austin. 363 

Pub. works, Supt., canal bd., art. 5, repeal 
§ 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other State Off. Com. 725 






















































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Int. No. 

Public Works, Supt., canal employees, art. 5, 
i 3. 

Pr. 369. By Mr. Austin. 364 

Public works, supt. of, elected by people, art. 

5, § 3. 

Pr. 81. By Mr. Brackett.•. 81 

Public Works, Supt., election, appointment, 
art. 5, §§ 1-3 and neAV § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 

Public Works, Supt. of, election, art. 5, § 3. 

Pr. 334. By Mr. Curran. 330 

PRINTING 

State printing, supervision, dept, of records, 
art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

PRISONS 

Board of pardon and parole, creating, new §. 

Pr. 82. By Mr. Brackett. 82 

Board of Pardons, creating, art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 237. By Mr. Bernstein. 235 

Com. of, change to bd. of correct’n, art. 8, § 11 

Pr. 519. By Mr. Kosch. 507 

Com’r of, council, etc., art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 593 

Commission on, creating; prisons control, 
art. 8, § 17, new. 

Pr. 333. By Mr. Wadsworth. 329 


Commission on, continued, art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Control by charities bd., art. 8, §§ 11, 13, 15 
and repealing § 12; art. 5, § 4. 


Pr. 653. By Mr. Hinman. 637 

Control, State Charities Bd., art. 8, §§ 11, 13, 

15; art. 8, § 12 and art. 5, § 4 repeal. 

Pr. 371. By Mr. Mandeville. 366 

Dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 540 

ncpt..of, juris, charities and corrections div., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Juvenile delinquents, laws, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 553. By Mr. Ahearn. 538 

Pardons, state board, art. 4, repeal § 5; art. 

8 , § 11 . 

Pr. 643. By Mr. Bell. 627 

Pardons, State Bd. of, providing, art. 8, §§ 11, 

12; repeal art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 771. By Mr. Marshall. 269 

Prison products, for State, pub. inst’ns, art. 

3, § 29. 

Pr. 245. By Mr. Lindsay. 243 

Products, of prison labor, sale, art. 3, § 29. 

Pr. 768. By Mr. Tierney. 465 

Reformatories, control, inspect’n, art. 8, §§ 11- 
13, ;5 and new §. 

Pr. 663. By Mr. Waterman. 647 

State Probation Com., constit’l body, art. 8, 

§ 11 . 

Pr. 580. By Mr. Clearwater. 565 

State supt., etc., art. 5, § 4, repeal. 

Pr. 448. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 436 

Supt. of, appointed by Gov., art. 4, § 4; art. 5, 

§§ 1, 2; art. 8, § 12; art. 10, § 9; art. 

11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal §§ 3, 4, 7, 
and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Deyo. 472 


Int. No. 

Supt. of, term, etc., art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 555 

Supt. state prisons, election by people, art. 

5, § 4. 

Pr. 83. By Mr. Brackett. 83 


PROPERTY 

Buildings, height, zones, cities, art. 12, new §. 

Pr. 501. By Mr. Bayes. 489 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 686. By Mr. Bannister. 669 

Buildings, zones, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister . 670 

Cities, lands, restricting use of, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 285. By Mr. Mann. 282 

Damage, determinat’n in county, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 320. By Mr. Ostrander. 316 

Dwellings, manuf. in, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 407 

Dwellings, manufacturing in, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 196. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 195 

Lands, tax rate, same as bldgs., art. 8, new §. 

9-a. 

Pr. 462. By Mr. Baldwin. 450 

Private, taking, for public use: 

Compensat’n, fix, manner of, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 465. By Mr. Baldwin. 453 

Compensation, fix, sup. ct., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 495. By Mr. Frank. 483 

Compensat’n, in advance, etc., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank. 442 

Compensat’n, just, definit’n, etc., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 453. By Mr. Frank. 441 

Compensation, must be just, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 264. By Mr. Weed. 261 

Condemnat’n, judge of, creating, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 169. By Mr. Brenner. 160 

Condemnation, sup. ct. without jury, art. 1, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 97. By Mr. Latson. 97 

Drains, water stor., power, private roads, 
art. 1, § 7 and new §. 

Pr. 407. By Mr. R. B. Smith. Co 

Compen., jury or ct. to fix, art 1, § 7. 

Pr. 27. By Mr. Steinbrink. 27 

Excess condemn, permitting, etc., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 617 

Excess condemnation, prohibit, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 325. By Mr. Dunmore. 321 

Excess condemnation, regul., art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

For water purposes, art. 7, §§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 71 

Grade change damages; condem. proced¬ 
ure, art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Grade changes, damage, compen., art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck... 697 

Grade change damages, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 649. By Mr. Donnelly.633 

ETealth, prop, dangerous to, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister. 671 

Lands under water, art. 1, new §. 


^- . 

Municipal corp’ns, pub. uses, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 705. By Mr. Blauvelt . 68b 

























































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Int. No. 

Private, taking, for public use — Continued: 
Public improv., assessm’ts for, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 496. By Mr. Frank. 484 

Streets, etc., open, grade, necessity, damage, 
art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 326. By Mr. Eyan. 322 

Water storage, regul., etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow... 370 

Water power, electric’y, develop., art..!, § 6. 

Pr. 406. By Mr. Baldwin. 248 

Water, power, storage, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 524. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 512 

Water regulation, lands for, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 707. By Mr. Landreth. 687 

Water supply, power, etc., art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce. 348 

Public: 

Exempt from taxation, art. 7, § 1. 

Pr. 126. By Mr. Wagner. 126 

Exempt from taxation, art. 3, new § 24-a. 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619 

State lands, keep as forest lands, art. 7, 

* new § 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

State prop., exempt local tax, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

Use by individual cr cor. regul., art. 1, 

§§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 720 

Use, by persons or corp’ns without comp., 
art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 11 

Use by persons or corp’ns pay, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce. 348 

Water, water pow., use, comp., art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 487. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 475 

Real prop., inchoate, dow., abol., art. 1, § 12. 

Pr. 300. By Mr. Brenner. 296 

Real prop., tax exemption abol., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 750. By Mr. Westwood. 424 

Taxes. (See “ Taxation.”) 

Title, land registration court, art. 6, new 
§ 24. 

Pr. 119. By Mr. Newburger. 119 

Titles, registering, county registrars, etc., art. 

10, new §. 

Pr. 60. By Mr. Coles. 60 

Title, regis., land div. sup. ct., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves. 527 

Titles, registration, regulating, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 


PUBLIC SERVICE 

Business corporations, regul, art. 8, new 


§ 16 . 

Pr. 180. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 180 

Commissions, constit’l body, new article. 

Pr. 655. By Mr. Hinman. 639 

Commissions, constitutional bodies, art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 856. By Public Utilities Com. 706 

Department of, art. 4, new^, art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.. 540 


Electricity, water, sale, 4th cl. villages, art. 
3, § 29. 

Pr. 768. By. Mr. Tierney. 


Int. No. 


Electric power cos., right of way, forests, 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 570 

Franchises, indeterm.,' prohib., art. 3, § 30, 
new. 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low. 548 

Gas. vessels subject to pressure, regul., art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty. 488 

Motor bus lines, franchises, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 581. By Mr. Mealy.. 566- 

Munic. ownership, permitting, art. 12, new. 

Pr. 568. By Mr. Eisner. 553 

Municipal ownership, permitted, art. 12. 

Pr. 283. By Mr. J. L. O’Brian.280 

Municipal ownership, permitting, art. 12. 

Pr. 335. By Air. Franchot. 331 

Police chiefs, free transp. art. 13, § 5. 

Pr. 205. By Air. WTggins . 204 

Public franchisui, condem, art 1, new § 20. 

Pr. 691. By Air. M. Saxe. 674 

Pub. Serv. Com. constit’l body, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 494. By Air. Coles. 482 

Public Service (^om., constit’l bodies, powers, 
art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 708. By Air. Landreth . 688 

Pub. serv. com’rs, terms, etc., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 715. By Mr. Foley. 98 

Pub. Serv. Com’rs, 6, elec, etc., art. 5, $ 1. 

Pr. 336. By Mr. 0’(3onnor. 332 

Pub. service dists., com’rs, etc., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 161. By Air. Schurman. 161 

Public Utilities Commission, estab., new art. 

Pr. 718. Fy Air. Olcott. 249 

Public Utilities Com’r, art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 5, and 
repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Air. Bernstein. 172 


Public utilities commissions, two, art. 5, §§ 1- 
4; 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

. Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Public utilities div., estab., art. 4, new; art. 5, 
new. 


Pr. 510. By Air. J. G. Saxe.. 498 

Public utilities, div. of,'art. 5, § 1. 

‘ Pr. 727. By Air. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Pub. utilities, duplicating, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 656. By Air. Barnes. 640 

Public utilities, supervision. Com. and Labor 
dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Air. A. E. Smith. 86 

Railroad employees, absent at elections, art. 

2, new §. 

Pr. 742. By Air. A. E. Smith. 247 

R. R. tracks, fran., local bills, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Air. Wickersham. 624 

Rapid trans., N. Y. City, sinking fund bonds, 
art. 8, § 10, § 12 new. 

. Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Rates, etc., laws fixing, prohib., art. 3, new 
§ 19. 

Pr. 162. By Air. Alandeville. 162 

Water power, div. conserv’n dept., art. 7, new 

§ 7 . 

Pr. 450. By Air. Green. 438 

Water power, electricity, taking lands for, 
art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 406. By Air. Baldwin. 248 


PUBLIC UTILITIES 

(See “Highways” and “Public Service.”) 


465 


























































148 


Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Q Int. No. 

Quakers, exempt from military service, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 452. By Mr. Coles. 440 


R 


Reapportioiiment, regulating, art. 10, § 6; 
art. 3, §§ 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and repeal § 7. 

Pr. 869. By Legislative Organiz. Com.. 
Recall. (See “ Elections.”) 

Records, state dept, of, estab., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86.. By Mr. E. N. Smith.. 

Records, supt. of, counties, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 456. By Mr. Reeves... 

Referee, certain judges not to act as, art. 6, 
§ 20. 

Pr. 104. By Mr. Tierney. 

Referees, judges not to act as, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 

Referee, judicial officers not to act as, art. 6, 
§ 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander.. 

Referees, retired judges, sup. ct., ct. of app., 
art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young.. 

Referendum. (See “Elections.”) 
Reformatories, com’r of, art. 8, §§ 11, 12. 

Pr. 608. By Mr. Parmenter. 

Reformatories, control by char, dept., art. 8, 
§§11, 13, 15 and rep. § 12; art. 5, § 4. 

Pr. 653. By J^Ir. Hinman. 

Reformatories, control, inspect., art. 8, §§ 11- 
13, 15 and new §. 

Pr. 663. By Mr. Waterman*... 

Ref’matories, dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe.... 

Reformatories, juris, corrections div., art. 5, 
§ 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr, J. G. Saxe. 

Regents, state bd., name, etc., art. 9, § 2. 

Pr. 518. By Mr. F. L. Young. 

Registers, N. Y. City, terms, removal, art. 10, 
§ 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith.,. 

Regist’n of voters. (See “Elections.”) 
Religious belief, of juTors, art. 1, § 3. 

Pr. 173. By Mr. Slevin. 

Religious institutions, no tax exemption, art. 
3, new §. 

Pr. 92. By Mr. Nixon...... 

Religious schools, state aid, art. 9, repeal § 4. 

Pr. 552. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 

Reservoirs, forest preserve lands, new art; 
art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 

Reservoirs, State, cost, apportion, art. 1, §§ 
4-7; art. 8, § 9; repeal § 1, of art. 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com.. 

Rights, acts, singly, in concert, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 613. By Mr. Dahm. 

Rights, amending generally, art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. By Bill of Rights Com. 

Rights, app. by people, crim. action, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 652. By Mr. F. Martin.. 

Rights, capital punish., abol., art. 1, new § 7. 

Pr. 677. By Mr. Curran. 

Rights, civil cases, no arrests, art. 1, § 5. 

Pr. 361. By Mr. Brenner. 

Rights, civil service emplovees, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 543. By Mr. Steinbrink.. 


722 

86 

444 

104 

224 

273 

463 

593 

637 

647 

540 

694 

506 

435 

173 

92 

537 

70S 


720 

598 

720 

636 

661 

357 

528 


Int. No. 


Rights, civil serv. employees, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 657. By Mr. McKean...... 641 

Rights, condenation, compen., art. I, § 6. 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce. 348 

Rights, contag. diseases, regul., art. .1, new §. 

Pr. 701. By Mr. Donovan ... 681 

RigMs, conviction, crime, appeal, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 506. By Mr. Harawitz. 494 

Rights, criminal charges, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 270. By Mr. Mann. 267 

Rights, criminal offenses, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 241. By Mr. Austin... 239 

Rights, damages by intox:icated persons, art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 397. By Mr. Rhees.. 390 

Rights, dealing on margins prohib. art. 1, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo... 387 

Rights, dower, inchoate, abol., art. 1, § 12. 

Pr. 300. By Mr. Brenner. 296 

Rights, equal protect’n of laws to all, art. 1, 

§ 6. 

Pr. 16. By Mr. Brackett.16 

Rights, extradition, habeas corpus, art. 1, § 4. ' 

Pr. 177. By Mr. Dunmore.. 177 

Rights, felony charge, witness without state, 
art. 1, § 6. ■ 

Pr. 358. By Mr. Kirby. 354 

Rights, forests, condemn., art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 558. By Mr. Parsons. 543 

Rights, free speech, art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 614. By Mr. Dahm.. 599 

Rights, gambling, prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 659. By Mr. Brackett. 643 

Rights, gambling, etc., prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 660. By Mr. Brackett.. .. 644 

Rights, grade changes, damages, compensat’n. 


art. 1, new §. 


Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck. 

Rights, grade change damage, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 649. By Mr.' Donnelly. 

Rights, grand jury, elim. certain cases, art. 1, 
§ 6 . 

Pr. 473. By Mr. F. Martin. 

Rights, grand jury indictment, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 337. By Mr. Coles. 

Rights, habeas corpus, suspending, art. 1, § 4. 

Pr. 435. By Mr. Curran. 

Rights, human labor not commodity, art. 1, 
§ 6 . 


Pr. 363. By Mr. Wagner. 

Rights, individ., crim. charges, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 373. By Mr. Sears. 

Rights, individ., crim. charges, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Rights, judgment by magis.,, guilty plea, 
art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 309 By Mr. Kirbv. 

Rights, juries, vacancies, filling, art. L § 2.’ 

Pr. 350. By Mr. Wiggins.... 

Rights, to jury trial, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 218. By Mr. Wickersham . 

Rights, jury trial, certain cases, abol., art. 1, 

§ 2. 


597 

633 

461 . 
333 I 
423 

358 

368 

11 i 

I 

305 i 
346 I, 
217 , 


Pr. 281. By MrT Rodenbeck. 

Rights, jury trial, civ. cases, reg., art. 1, 8 2 

Pr. 295. By Mr. Leggett. 

Rights, to jury trial, crim. cases, art. 1 8 2 
Pr. 398. By Mr. Curran.. 


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292 j j 
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149 


Int. 

Rights, to jury trial, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 271. By Mr. Mann.. 

Rights, to jury trial, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 235. By Mr. J. G. Saxe... 

Rights, jury trial, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 374. By Mr. Sears. 

Rights, jury trial, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 189. By Mr. Pelletreau. 

Rights, jury, verdict, civil cases, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 354. By Mr. Angell.. 

Rights, jury trial, workmen’s compen., art. 1, 
§§ 18, 19. 

Pr. 865. By Industrial Interests Com. . 
Rights, libel, reparative publicity^ art 1, § 8. 

Pr. 694. By Mr. Quigg. 

Rights, military service, peace times, art. 11, 
§ 1. 

Pr. 544. By Mr. Bayes. 

Rights, mil. serv., scruples agst., art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 452. By Mr. Coles. 

Rights, oaths, false, disability, art. 13, § 1. 

Pr. 624. By Mr. Lincoln... 

Rights, prop., assess, for pub. improv., art. 1, 
§ 7. 

Pr. 496. By Mr. Frank.. .. 

Rights, prop., condemnation, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 453. By Mr. Frank. 

Rights, property, condemnation, ^rt. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank. 

Righte, prop., condem’n, art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 

Rights, prop., condemn., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 495. By Mr. Frank. 

Rights, prop., condemn., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Rights, prop., condemnation, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 524. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Rights, property, excess condemnation, abol. 
art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 325. By Mr. Dunmore. 

Rights, prop., taking, compen., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 465. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Rights, to grand jury, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 619. By Mr. Franchot. 

Rights, special privileges, prohibit, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pi. 803. By Legislative Powers Com... 
Rights, witness against self, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 234. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

River improv., conserv’n dept., art. 7, new ^ 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 

Rivers, flow, regul., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 

Rivers, regulating flow, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 524. By Mr. E. X. Smith. 

Roads, private, taking prop, for, art. 1, § 7, 
and new §. 

Pr. 407. By Mr.' R. B. Smith. 

Rights, water regul., condemnat’n, art. 1, § 7. 
Pr. 707. By Mr. Landreth . 

RAILROADS 

(See “Public Service”) 

, ROCHESTER 
(See also “Cities.”) 

Debt limit; water debts, excluded, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 681. By Mr. Sanders. 

Debt limit, water debts, art. 8, § 10, § 12 new. 
Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 


S Int. No. 

Safety and health, div. state govt., art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Safety and health, div. of, executive dept., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe... 694 

Safety, div. of health and safety, art. 4 new; 
art. 5 new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Safety, pub. county and town, powers, art. 3, 

§§ 26, 27; art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 721 
Schools. (See “ Education.”) 

Sec’y of state, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 


Pr. 651. By Mr. Donnelly. 635 

Secretary of state, appointed by Gov., art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 179 

Sec’y of State, appoint, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 555 

Sec’y of State, appointed by Gov., art. 4, § 4; 
art. 5, §§ 1, 2; art. 8, § 12; art. 10, 

§ 9; art. 11, §§ 4, 6; art. 5, repeal §§ 

3, 4, 7 and renumber §§ 5, 6, 8, 9. 

Pr. 484. By Mr. Devo. 472 

Secy, of state, app. by Gov., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 

Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Sec’y of state, appointed by gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletroau.. 222 

Secy, of State, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By Mr. Wadsworth. 418 

Sec’y of State, appro., estimates, art. 3, § 20. 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Sec’y of St., can’l bd., art. 5. rep’l § 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. . 725 
Sec’y of State, election validity, art. 14, §§ 1, 

2, 3 and new §. 

Pr. 855. Future Amendments Com. 715 

Sec’y of state, election, appointment, regul., 
art. 5, §§ 1-3 and new § 10 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 

Sec’y of State, reorg., art. 5, §§ 1-4; 6-7 re¬ 
peal ; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. Other St. Off. Com. . 716 
Secretary of state. 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 109. By l\Ir. Bockes. 109 

Sec’y of State, Gov. to appoint, ai4. 5, § 2, 
repealing § 7. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 

Sec’v of state, head state dept., art. 5, § 1. 

'Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Sec’y state, member gov.’s council, art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau. 221 

Secretary of state, term, repeal, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 110. By Mr. Bockes. 110 

Secretarv of state, to be appointed by Gov., 
art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 125. By Mr. C. Nicoll. .. 125 

Secretary of state, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Pooling. 134 

Sec’y of state, seat in legis., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 

Secular schools etc., (See “Education.”) 
Securities, mun., com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

Sheriffs, appointed by Gov., art. 10, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 178. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 178 

Sheriffs, may succeed themselves, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 57. By Mr. Kirby. 57 

Sheriffs, mav succeed themselves, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 329 By Mr. Dunmore. 325 


No. 

268 

233 

369 

188 

350 

714 

677 

529 

440 

609 

484 

441 

442 

500 

483 

617 

512 

321 

453 

604 

701 

232 

7. 

438 

570 

512 

55 

687 

665 

713 
























































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Constitutional Convention Subject Index 


Int. No. 

Sheriffs, succeed themselves, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 805. By County, Town & Village 

Officers Com. 717 

Sheriffs. (See also “ Counties.”) 

Sheriffs, terms, removal, N. Y. City, etc., 
art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 435 

Sink, funds, surplus, using, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 645. By Mr. Parsons. 629 

Sink, funds, surplus, using, art. 7, § 5. 

Pr. 200. By M.r. Blauvelt. 199 

Soldiers, sailors, jury exemptions, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Spanish war veterans, civ. serv. pref., art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 53. By Mr. Dunmore. 53 

Specie pay., suspen., art. 8, § 4, and repeal 
§§ 5, 6, 7 8. 

Pr. 486. By Mr. Leggett... 474 

State, actions against, as in individual, art. 

1, § 1. 

Pr. 95. By Mr. Westwood. 95 

State, actions against, liab., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 353. By Mr. Angell. 349 

State bd. of estimate, art 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 19. By Mr. Aiken. 19 

State bds., offi., unrea’able rules, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 589. By Mr. Dunmore. 574 

State bonds, anticipation of taxes, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 449. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 437 

State bonds, for pub. improv., art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 

State bonds, maturity, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 

State budget comm., estab., art. 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 13. By Mr. C. II. Young. 13 

State budget, providing for, art. 3, § 21. 

Pr. 809. By Finance Com. 709 

State census. (See “C.”) 

State constabulary,- prohib., art. 4, §§ 4, 6 
and new §. 

Pr. 404. By Mr. Curran. 397 

State debts, bond, anticipate taxes, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 367. By Mr. Austin. 362 

State debts, creating, regul., art. 7, §§ 2. 4, 

5. 11. 

Pr. 739. By Finance Com. 692 

State debts, contraot’g. sink, fund, art. 7. § 4. 

Pr. 100. By INIr. Wagner. 100 

State debts, by contract, accrual, art. 7, | 6. 

Pr. 343. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 339 

State debts, fund., maturing, art, 8, new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 470 

State debts, laws creating, art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 592. By Mr. Cullinan..... 577 

State debts, pay. annual instal., art. 7, § 11. 

Pr. 532. By Mr. Lincoln. 520 

State debts, regul., serial bonds, art. 7, §§ 2, 

4, 5, 11, 12. 

Pr. 784. By Finance Com. 705 

State debts, ser. bds., etc., art. 7, §§ 4, 11, 12. 

Pr. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 469 

State debts, ser. bds., etc., art. 7, § 4. 

Pr. 714. By Mr. Austin. 509 

State debts., counsel to, abol., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 620. By Mr. Kirby. 605 

State depts., offices, creation, limiting, art. 5, 
new § 10. 

Pr. 186. By Mr. Lincoln. 186 


Int. No. 


State depts., reorganizing, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

State hospitals. (See “ Insane.”) 

State Instit’ns, appro, bills for, art. 3, §§ 15, 

20 21 24. 

Pr. 342. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 338 

State inst., super, by treas., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 598. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 563 

State, labor, 8-hour day, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 401. By Mr. Curran... 394 

State lands, control engineering dept., art. 5, 
new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

State lands, keep as forest lands, art. 7, new 
§ 7. 

Pr. 445. By Mr. Meigs. 433 

State loans, proceeds, use of, art. 7, § 13. 

Pr. 6. By Mr. Parsons... 6 

State officers, appointed by Gov., term, art. 

10, § 3. 

Pr. Ill By Mr. R. B. Smith. Ill 

State officers, comp., salary only, art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 89. By Mr. Kirby. 89 

State officers, election, appointment, regul., 
art. 5, §§ 1-3 and new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri. 246 

State officers, impeaclunent, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 141 

State officers, removal, art. 4, § 4. 

Pr. 567. By Mr. Eisner. 552 

State officers, removal, art. 4, new § 10. 

Pr. 639. By Mr. Tanner. 623 


State officers, reorg., art. 5, §§ 1-4; repeal; 
new art. 5 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
State officials, receiv. pens., limit pay, art. 10, 


new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

State prison com., abol., art. 8, §§ 11, 13, 15 
and repealing § 12; art. 5, § 4. 

Pr. 653. By Mr. Hinman. 637 

Statistics, judicial, providing, art. 6, § 21. 

Pr. 466. By Mr. Baldwin. 454 

Statistics, judicial, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com.718 

Statistics and public’n, dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

State officers, reorganizing, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 85. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 85 

Steam, press., vessels, regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 772. By INIr. Fogarty. 488 

Stock exch., super., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 596. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 581 

Stockholders, busi. corp’ns, rights, art. 8, new 
§ 16. 

Pr. 180. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 180 

Stock market, incorpat’g, art. 8, § 4, new. 

Pr. 395. By Mr. Deyo.,. 388 

Stocks, dealing on margins prohib., art. 1, § 9. 

Pr. 813. By Mr. Deyo. 387 

Streams, flow, regul., forest lands for, new 
art; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 708 

Streets, open, grade, necessity, damage, art. 1, 

5 7 . 

Pr. 326. By Mr. Ryan. 322 

Suffrage. (See “ Elections.”) 

Summer resorts, organization, voting, art. 2,' 

§§ 1, 4, 6; art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 695. By Mr. Dunmore.. 678 






























































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151 


Int. No. 

{Superior court, estab., juris., etc., art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves. 308 

Supervisors, delegate powers to. art. 3, § 27. 

Pr. 291. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 288 

Supervisors, election by county, etc., art. 3, 

{ 26. 

Pr. 12. By Mr. C. H. Young. 12 

Surgeons. (See “Health.”) 

Surrogates, abol., art. 0, § 15. 

Pr. 587. By Mr. Tierney. 572 

Surrogates, age limt 72 yrs., art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 493. By Mr. Steinbrink. 481 

Surrogates, appoint, regul., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams. 485 

Surrogates courts, continued, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Surrogate’s ct., merge sup. ct., art. 6, §§ 1-3, 

5-7, 9, 12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 62(5. By Mr. Westwood. 611 

Surrogates, juris., powers, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 499. By Mr. Reeves. 487 

Surrogates, pay, changing, art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 151. By Mr. Burkan . 151 

Surrogates, practice of law, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 526. By Mr. Nye. 514 

Surrogates, salary, art. 6, § 15. 

. Pr. 577. By Mr. Rosch. 562 

Surrogates, transfer to prob. div. sup. ct., 
art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 1. By Mr. Reeves. 1 

Surrogates’ cts., merge sup. ct., art. 6. 

Pr. 265. By Mr. Reeves. 262 

Surrogates, courts -of, powers, etc., art. 6, 

§ 15. 

Pr. 351. By Mr. Heaton. 347 

Surrogates, law practice, acting as referee, 
art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 104. By j\H. Tier’-’V. 104 

Surrogates, practice law, referee, art. 6, § 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander. 273 

Surrogates, qualific’ns, practice law, art. 6, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxb^um. 224 

Surrogates, terms, juris., art. 6, § 15. 

Pr. 443. By Mr. IVIcKean. 431 

Swamps, drain., taking prop, for, art. 1, § 7, 
and 2 new §§. 

Pr. 407. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 65 

Swamps, drain’g, local bills for, art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 54. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 64 


SENATE 

Abolishing, art. 3, H 1, 6 to 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 

25; §§ 3, 4. 13 repeal. 

Pr. 232. By Mr. Kirk.. 230 

Adjournment, art. 3, § 15. 

Pr. 604. By Mr. Mandeville. 589 

Appro, bills, powers to amend, art. 3, § 13* 

Pr. 168. By Mr. Pelletreau. 168 

Bills, passing, limit to 50 a week, art. 3, § 13. 

Pr. 683. By Mr. Westwood. 667 

Constitut’lity, referendum, new aft. 

Pr. 573. By Mr. Eisner. 558 

Ct. of claims, judges, removal, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 479. By Mr. Cobb. 467 

Direct tax bill, pasing, vote required, art. 3, 

? 15. 

Pr. 120. By Mr. Baldwin. 120 

iDistricts, altering, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 233. By Mr. Sheehan. 231 


r 

j Int. No. 

; Districts, maximum number any county, art. 

! Pr. 722. By Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 673 

Districts, reapportion, regul., art. 10, § 6; 

I art. 3, §§ 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and repeal § 7. 

! Pr. 869. By Legislative Organiz. Com. . 722 
Districts, reapportioning by legis., art. 3, § 4. 

I Pr. 704. By Mr. Haffen . 684 

' Districts reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

1 Pr. 697. Legislative Organization Com. 680 
' Districts, reapportion by Legis., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 262. By Mr. Betts. 259 

Districts, reapportioning, art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 230. By Mr. Foley. 228 

Districts, reapportioning, regul., art. 3, § 4. 

Pr. 302. By Mr. Bernstein.... 298 

Districts, reapportion, regul., art. 3, §§ 3-5; 
art. 6, § 1; art. 12, § 2. 

^ Pr. 396. By Mr. Betts. 389 

. Gov’s, appointees, consent abol., art. 4, new §. 

I Pr. 296. By Mr. Leggett. 293 

I President, act as Gov., art. 4. S 7. 

‘ Pr. 529. By Mr. Johnson. 517 

President, temporary, convene impeachment 
court, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 731. By Legislative Powers Com... 695 
President, not member imneachment ct., art. 

6, § 13. 

Pr. 137. By Mr. Rosch. 137 

! Pub. Serv. Com’rs, rem., art. 5, new §, 

j Pr. 494. By ;Mr. Coles. 482 

j Public Service Com’rs, removal, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 856. By Public Utilities Com. 706 


Senators: 


Appearing before state official as attorney, 
art. .3, new §. 

Pr. 669. By Mr. Cobb. 653 

Members of impeachment court, art. 6. § 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 141 

Members impeachment ct., art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 530. By Mr. Johnson. 518 

Number, dists., art. 3, 4. 

Pr. 574. By Mr. Griffin.. 559 

Number, 24, term, etc., art. 3, §§ 2-4; art. 

14, § 1. 

Pr. 279. By Mr. Schurman. 276 

Number, 25, term 4 ye 9 ,rs, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 642. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 626 

Number, 55, terms 4 years, art. 3, §§ 2-4. 

Pr. 723. By Mr. HaflFen. 693 

Number, 100, salary $3,000, art. 3, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 303. By IMr. Bernstein. 299 

Salary, increasing, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 835. By Legis. Organization Com.. 697 
Salary, $3,500, allowances, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 133. By Mr. TTarawitz..r. 133 

Salary, increase to $4,000, art. 3, § 6. 

Pr. 48. By Mr. Griffin. 48 

Salary. $3,000, art. 3, § 6. ‘ , 

Pr. 297. By Mr. Tuck....294 

Salary, $3,000. art. 3. § 6. 

Pr. 403. Bv Mr. Curran. 306 

Salary, $3,000, art. 3. § 6. 

Pr. 96. Bv Mr. 96 

Sixty members at $5,000. art. 3, § 1. 

Pr. 41. By Mr. McKinney. 41 

Terms, one year, art. 3, § 2; art. 14, § 1. 

Pr. 615. By Mr. Dahm. 6nn 




























































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Senators — Continued: Int. Ko. 

Terms, two years, sal., $3,500, art. 3, §§ 2, 6. 

Pr. 30. By Mr. Richards. 30 

Terms, 4 years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 471. By Mr. Tanner... 459 

Terms 4 years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 429. By Mr. Wadsworth. 417 

Terms, four years, art. 3, § 2; art. 10, § 6. 

Pr. 246. By Mr. Lindsay. 244 

Terms, 4 years, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 166. By Mr. Pelletreau. 166 

Terms, four-year, art. 3, § 2. 

Pr. 47. By Mr. Griffin. 47 

Terms of, 4 years, sal. $3,000, art. 3, § § 2, 6. 

Pr. 93. By Mr. Standart. 93 

Temporary president, act as Gov., art. 4, §§ 6, 

7. 

Pr. 846. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 385 

' Temporary president, presiding, art. 3, § 10. 

Pr. 841. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 290 

Temporary president, succession, art 3, new §. 

Pr. 393. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 386 

State officers, seats, art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau. 223 

SUPREME COURT 

Actions against state, exclusive juris., art. 1, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 95. By Mr. Westwood. 95 

Actions, transfer to local or county ct., art. 

6, § 14. 

Pr. 488. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 476 

App. Div., abol., art. 6, §§ 2, 7. 

Pr. 457. By Mr. Bayes. 445 

App. Div., county officers, removal, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 447. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 435 

App. Div., remove county officers, art. 10, § 1. 

Pr. 805. By County, Town & Village 

Officers Com. 717 

App. div. justices, desig., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 148. By Mr. Bernstein. 148 

App. Div., justices, designating, etc., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 340. By Mr. Steinbrink_!. 336 

Apportionment, 1st cl. cities, review, art. 3, 
new § 4. 

Pr. 507. By Mr. Foley. 495 

Claims division, claims vs. state, art. 6, §§ 1, 

19 and new §. 

Pr. 414. By Mr. Latson. 402 

Claims vs. state, juris, over, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 353. By Mr. Angell. 349 

Condem’n, proceedings, 3 judges, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 495. By Mr. Frank. 483 

Condemnation, with or without jury, etc., 
art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 465. By Mr. Baldwin. 453 

Condemnation proc’d’gs, without jury, art. 1, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 97. By Mr. Latson. 97 

Constitutionality, laws, sit in banc, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 606. By Mr. Mandeville. 591 

Continuing, etc., art. 6. 

Pr. 312. By Mr. Reeves. 308 

Court of app., merging, etc., art. 6, §§ 1-13. 

Pr. 306. By Mr. Gladding. 302 

Judges, appoint, regul., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 497. By Mr. Adams. 485 

Judges, elect, odd numbered years, art. 6, 

§§ 4, 8; art. 10, § 5. 

Pr. 680. By Mr. Sears. 664 


Int. No. 


Judges, fix court practice, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 720. By Mr. R. B. Smith.. 690 

Judges, gov. to nominate cand., art. 6, 8 10. 

Pr. 622. By Mr. Sears. 607 

Judges, 10-year terms, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 503. By Mr. Bayes. 491 

Judges, nomin., manner of, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 20. By Mr. Aiken. 20 

Judges, practice of law, acting as referee, art. 

6, § 20. 

Pr. 104. By Mr. Tierney.. 104 

Judges, re-electing, art. 6, § 10. 

Pr. 313. By Mr. Brenner... 309 

Judges, removal by ct. of appeals, art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 534. By Mr. Deyo. 522 

Judges, removal, etc., art. 6, § 11. 

Pr. 391. By Mr. Cobb. 384 

Judges, removal, convene legis., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com. . 696 
Judges, salary, 12,000, extra pay, art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 493. By Mr. Steinbrink. 481 

Judges, separate elections for, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 511. By Mr. Parsons. 499 

Judges, vacancies, filling, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 515. By Mr. Shipman. 503 

Judges, vacancies, filling, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 556. By Mr. Stimson. 541 

Juris., claims against state, art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 15. By Mr. Brackett. 15 

Jury trials, civ. cases, waiving, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 198. By Mr. Baldwin. 197 

Justices of, compen. from state, art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 66. By Mr. Steinbrink. 60 

Justices, desig. appeals ct. judges, art. 6, 

§§ 1, 2, 4, 7, 12; § 8 repeal. 

Pr. 231. By Mr. Kirk. 229 

Justices, former, official ref., art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 190. By Mr. Steinbrink. 189 

Justices of, impeachment, art. 6, § 13. 

Pr. 141. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 141 

Justices of, increase by legis., abol., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 65, By Mr. Steinbrink. 65 

Justices, increase, 1st district, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 718 

Justices of, 2d term bv desig. of gov., art. 6, 

§ 4. 

Pr. 64. By Mr, Steinbrink. 64 

Justices, qualific’ns, practice of law, art. 6, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 226. By Mr. Buxbaum. 224 

Justices, qualific’n, practice law, etc., art. 6, 

§ 20. 

Pr. 276. By Mr. Ostrander. 273 

Justices, salary of, art. 6, § 12. 

Pr. 242. -By'Mr. Clearwater. 240 

Justices of, terms, vacancies, art. 6, § 4. 

Pr. 124. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 124 

Justices of, to be appointed by gov., art. 6, § 1. 

Pr. 123. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 123 

Kings, merging county court, art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 62. By Mr. Adams. 62 

Land div., estab., art. 6, new §.' 

Pr. 2. By Mr. Reeves. 2 

Land division, authorizing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves. 527 

Laws, constitutionality of, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 433. By Mr. Curran. 421 

Local assessments, review, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 496. By Mr. Frank. 484 


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Int. 

Masters, comm’rs, merge surrogates ct., etc., 
art. 6. 

Pr. 265. By Mr. Reeves. 

Merging other courts, art. 6, §§ 1-3, 6-7, 9, 
12, 14-20, 22, 23. 

Pr. 626. By Mr. Westwood. 

X. Y. City, merging city ct., art. 6, § 5. 

Pr. 149. By Mr. Burkan. 

N. Y. Co., merging gen. sess’ns ct., art. 6 , $ 14. 

Pr. 254. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Probate div., establishing, art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 1. By Mr. Reeves. 

Referees, retired justices as, art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. 712. By Mr. C. H. Young... 

Sitting in banc, art. 6, § 3. 

Pr. 607. By Mr. Mandeville. 

Streets, open, grade, necessity, damage, art 1, 
§ 7. 

Pr. 326. By Mr. Ryan. 

Sup. ct. comm’rs, certain counties, art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 464. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Terms, special, trial, justices, desig., art. 6, 

§ 2 . 

Pr. 315. By Mr. Sargent. 

Terms, spec., trial, justices for, desig., art. 6, 

§ 12. 

Pr. 536. By Mr. Tuck. 

Transfer cases to county ct., art. 6, § 14. 

Pr. 426. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 


T 

Tenements, manuf. in, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 864. By Mr. Parsons. 

Testifying agt. self not compulsory, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 5. By Mr. Parsons.. 

Testifying against self, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 234. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Testifying vs. self, crim. Cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 270. By Mr. Mann. 

Testifying agt. self, not compulsory, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 11. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Testifying vs. self, crim. cases, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 76. By Mr. Quigg. 

Text books, schools, English only, art. 9, § 4. 

Pr. 682. By Mr. Nixon. 

Timber, fallen. (See “Conservation.”) 

Title, land registration ct., art. 6, new § 24. 

Pr. no. By Mr. Newburger. 

Titles, regis., examiners, etc., art. 6, new §. 

Pr. 542. By Mr. Reeves. 

Titles, registering, examiners of, insur. fund, 
art. 10, new §. 

Pr. 60. By Mr. Coles. 

Titles, registration, Torrens system, art. 6. 

Pr. 850. By Judiciary Com. 

Trade districts, buildings, zones, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687 By Mr. Bannister. 

Trade, restraint of, prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 504. By Mr. Sargent. 

Treason, conviction for, pardon, art. 8, §{ 11, 
' , 12; repeal art. 4, § 5. 

Pr. 771. By Mr. Marshall. 

Treasurer, appointed, by Gov., art. 5, S 1* 

Pr. 224. By Mr. Pelletreau. 

Treas., appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 179. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 

Treasurer, appointed by Gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 651. By ,Mr. Donnelly. 


Int. No. 

Treasurer, member canal board. Art. 5, repeal 
§ 5; new §. 

Pr. 857. By Gov. & Other -St. Off. Com. 725 

Treasurer, election, appointment, regul., art. 


5, §§ 1-3, and new § 10. 

Pr. 249. By Mr. Berri.. 246 

Treasurer, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 134. By Mr. Dooling. 134 

Treasurer, Gov. to appoint, art. 5, § 2, repeal 
§ 7. 

Pr. 427. By Mr. Wadsworth. 415 

Treasurer, Gov. to appoint, art. 5, §§ 1-4. 

Pr. 570. By Mr. Eisner. 555 

Treasurer, Gov. to appoint, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 430. By Mr. Wadsworth. 418 


Treasurer, head dept., taxation and finance, 
art. 5, §§ 1-4, 6-7 repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Treas., state, appoint, by Gov., art. 5, §§ 1, 2, 

5, and repeal §§ 3, 4. 


Pr. 172. By Mr. Bernstein. 172 

Treasurer, state, 4-year term, art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 109. By Mr. Bockes. 109 

Treasurer, member Gov’s council, art. 4, $ 4. 

Pr. 223. By Mr. Pelletreau.221 

Treasurer, seats in Legis., art. 6, § 2. 

Pr. 225. By Mr. Pelletreau.223 

Treasurer, state, appointed by gov., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 7^i5. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 125 

Treasurer, state, term, repeal § 2, art. 5. 

Pr. 110. By Mr. Bockes. 110 

Treasurer, supervise state inst’ns, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 598. By Mr. R. B. Smith.. . i.583 

Treasury, div. of, estab., art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 510. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 498 

Treasury, div. executive dept., art. 5, 

§ 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Treas., div. of, state gov., art. 4, new; art. 5, 
new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

• Trials, new, obviating, art. 6, new § 9-a. 

Pr. 356. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 352 

TAXATION 

Bonds, in anticipation of taxes, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 449. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 437 

Cigarettes, tax on, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 591. By Mr. Cullinan. 576 

Cities, villages, restriction by legislature, 
art, 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 671. By Mr. Green. 655 

Counties, dep. assess, and collect’n, art. 10, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 202. By Mr. Barrett. 201 

Debts, bonds, anticipation of taxes, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 367. By Mr. Austin...'. 362 

Dept, of, juris, treasury div., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 

Department of, reorganize, art. 5, §§ 1-4, 6-7 
repeal; new art. 5. 

Pr. 863. By Gov. & Other St. Off. Com. 716 
Dept, of, state gov., art. 4 new; art. 5 new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Direct tax bill, partial veto, art. 4, § 9. 

Pr. 210. By Mr. Deyo. 209 

Direct tax bill, partial veto, art. 4, new §. 

Pr.- 212. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 211 

Direct tax bills, amount, object, art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 307. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 303 


No. 

262 

611 

149 

251 

1 

463 

592 

322 

452 

311 

164 

414 

407 

5 

232 

267 

11 

76 

666 

119 

527 

60 

718 

670 

492 

269 

222 

179 

635 



























































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Int. No. 

Direct tax, excess, comptroller reduce, art. 3, 

§ 24. 

Pr, 346. By Mr. Wagner. 342 

Direct tax to meet pub. improv. bonds, art. 7, 
new §. 

Pr. 344. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 340 

Direct state tax bill, enacting, legis., art. 3, 
i 15. 

Pr. 120. By Mr. Baldwin. 120 

Direct taxes, levying, regul., art. 3, §§ 15, 20, 

21, 24. 

Pr. 342. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 338 

Education, local taxes for, cities, art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 757. By Education Com. 704 

Exemptions, from local taxation, abolishing, 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 322. By Mr. Mmgs. 318 

Exemption prohibited except public prop., art. 

3, new §. 

Pr. 92. By Mr. Nixon. 92 

Exemptions, real prop., prohib., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 750. By Mr. Westwood. 424 

Health department, state, direct tax for, art. 

8 , new § 16. 

Pr. 684. By Mr. Brackett. 668 

Inheritance taxes, use for pub. improve, art. 

7, new §. 

Pr. 541. By Mr. Bannister. 626 

Munic. prop., outside limits, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 493 

Munic. prop., outside corp. limits, exemption, 
art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 441. By Mr. Heaton.. 429 

Public prop., state, local, exempt, art. 3, new 
§ 24-a. 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619 

Rate, same on buildings and lands, art. 8, 
new § 9-a. 

Pr. 462. By Mr. Baldwin. 450 

Regulating, exemptions, etc,, new art. 

Pr. 834. By Taxation Com. 679 

Revenue bill, transmit to legis., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 444. By Mr. Meigs.. 432 

Supervision, by state finance dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 86 

State gov’t cost of, direct tax for, art. 7, § 2. 

Pr. 267. By Mr. Mann.264 

State prop., exempt from local taxes, art. 8, 
new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

State propertv, exempt, art. 7, § 1. 

Pr. 126. 'By Mr. Wagner. 126 

''Tax com., constit’l body, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 627. By Taxation Com. .. 612 

Tax officials, election, appoint, etc., art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 385. By Mr. M. Saxe... 378 

Taxes, half to locality, new §. 

Pr. 648. By Mr. Donnelly. 632 

Taxes, levy, etc., regul., tax com’rs, art. 3, 

§ 24. 

Pr. 636. By Mr. Steinbrink. 620 

Taxes, licenses, penalties, coll., art. 3, § 24. 

Pr. 286. By Mr. Mann. 283 

Valuat’ns, uniform, mkt. value, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 46. By Mr. Griffin. 46 

THEATERS 

Motion pictures, censorship prohib., art. 1, § 8. 

Pr. 101. By Mr. Eisner. 101 


TOWNS Int. No. 

Bonds, pub. improv., maturity, art. 8 , new 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 

Bonds, serial, etc., art. 7, new § 4. 

Pr. 665. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 649 

Boundaries, enlarging, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 641. By Mr. Low. 625 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 686 . By Mr. Bannister. 669 

iii liiigs, zones, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister. 67w 

Condemnation, just compensation, art. 1 , § 6 . 

Pr. 453. By Mr. Frank. 441 

Condemnation, power of, art. 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank. 442 

Courts, limited juris., estab., art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 372. By Mr. Sears. 367 

Debts, serial bonds for, art.' 8 , § 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Elec., proposit’n to spend money, art. 8 , § 10. 

Pr. 35. By Mr. Mereness. 35 

Employees, receiving pension, art. 10, new § 10. 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Employees, vote for town officers, art. 2 , § 1 . 

Pr. 670. By Mr. Green. 654 

' Formation, gov’t, etc., art. 10, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 178. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 178 

Franchise grants, perpetuity, prohib., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 

Franchises, indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, 

§ 30,, new. 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low. 548 

Funded debts of, refund, etc., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn.272 

Health, use forest lands, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow. 370 

Highways, cost, apportion, art. 7, § 13, new. 

Pr. 811. By Mr. Westwood. 479 

Highways, cost of, exempt, art. 7, §§ 4, 11, 12. 

I*r. 481. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 469 

Highway debts, contrib. to, art. 7, § 12. 

Pr. 533. By Mr. Lincoln. 521 

Highways, poor, safetv, powers re, art. 3 , §§ 

26, 27; art. 10, § 2 . 

Pr. 853. By Co., Town & Vil. Gov. Com. 72 
Justices of peace, number, art. 6 , § 17. 

Pr. 370. By Mr. Bunce. 365 

Justice of peace, regul.. art. 6 , § 17. 

Pr. 175. By Mr. Bunce. 175 

Justice of peace, art. 6 , §§ 17. 22 , 23. 

Pr. 16.3. By ^Ir. Leggett. 16§ 

Lands under water, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

!Municipal prop., outside limits, tax, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith. 493 

Officers, election, appointment, term, etc., 
art. 10 , § 2 . 

Pr. 323. By Mr. L. M. Martin. .319 

Officers, nomination, etc., art. 2 , new § 7 . 

Pr. 366. By Mr. Low. 3^1 

Officers, pay, change during term, art. 3 , § 28. 

Pr. 36. By Mr. Mereness. . 3 rt 

Officials, elec, not provided for, art. 10 , § 2 . 

Pr. 211 . By Mr. Sanders. 

Officials, extra pay, prohib., art. 3 . § 28. 

Pr. 386. By Mr. Mereness. . 37 ;^ 




























































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Officials, pay, extra compen., prohib., art. 3 , 
§§ 18, 28; art. 5, § 1; art. 6 , § 15; 


art. 10, § 9. 

Pr. 387. By Mr. Mereness. 380 

Officials, removal, certiorari review, art. 10, 

§ 1, and new §. 

Pr. 472. By Mr. F. Martin. 460 

Officials, with pensons, limit salary, art. 10, 
new §. 

Pr. 517.. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

Officials, whose elec, not provided for, art. 10, 

§ 2 . 

Pr. 146. By Mr. M. Saxe. 14U 

Pensions, actuarial basis for, art. 7, new §. 

Pr. 703. By Mr. Low . 683 

Property for public use, taking, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 705. By Mr. Blauvelt. 685 

Property, dangerous to health, etc., taking, 
art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister. 671 

Securities, com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

School districts, funded debts, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. R. B. Smith..... 470 

State taxes, half to towns, new §. 

Pr. 648. By Mr. Donnelly. 632 

Stocks, bonds, gift to town, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 108. By Mr. Bockes.. 108 

Supervisors, abol., optional, art. 3, § 26. 

Pr. 12. By Mr. C. H. Young. 12 

Taxation, public prop., exempt, art. 3, new § 

24*ft • 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619 

Tax officials, appointment, election, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 385. By Mr. M. Saxe. 378 

Taxes, local, exemptions, abol., art. 3, new 8. 

Pr. 322. By Mr. Meigs. 318 

Taxes, local, state prop., exempt, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

Town meetings, art. 2, § 6. 


Water supply, state lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 

Water supply, forest lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 


U 

Unemployed. (See “Labor.”) 

U. S. deposit fd., revenues, art. 9, § 3. 

Pr. 40. By Mr. Austin. 40 


V 


Vaccination, school children, art. 9, new §. 

Pr. 502. By Mr. Bayes. 

Verdict by five-sixths of jury, art. 1, § 2. 

Pr. 207. By Mr. Vanderlyn. 

Verdict, bv three-fourths of jury, art. 1, 5 2. 

Pr. 17. By Mr. Aiken. 

Veterans, civil service, pensions, art. 5, new {• 

Pr. 261. By Mr. Green. 

Veterans, civ. serv. pref., abol., art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 520. By Mr. Quigg.. . 

Veterans, civ. serv. preference, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 355 . By Mr. Wood. 

Veterans, civ. serv. pref., etc., art. 5, f 9. 

Pr. 287. By Mr. Mann. 


490 

206 

17 

258 

508 

351 

284 


Int. No. 

\'eterans, civ. serv. pref., regul., art. 5 , § 9 . 

Pr. 29. By Mr. Olcott. 29 

V'eterans, civ. serv. preference, art. 4 , § 9. 

Pr. 77. By Mr. S. K. Phillips;. 77 

Veterans, civ. serv. preference, art. 5 , § 9 . 

Pr. 439. By Mr. C. Nicoll. 427 

Veterans, civ. serv., pref., abol., art. 5 , § 9 . 

Pr. 138. By Mr. Quigg.. 138 

S^eterans, civil serv. preference, art. 5, § 9. 

Pr. 630. By Mr. Weed.... 614 

Veterans, civ. serv., removal, art. 5 , § 9 . 

Pr. 266. By Mr. Heyman. 263 

\T*t., Spanish war, pref*. in civ. serv., art. 5, 

§ 9. 

Pr. 53. By Mr. Dunmore. 53 

V^oters, voting. (See “Elections.”) 


VILLAGES 

Bonds, serial, etc., art. 7, new § 4. 

Pr. 665. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 649 

Bonds, public improv., maturity, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 662. By Mr. Van Ness. 646 

Boundaries, enlarging, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 641. By Mr. Low. 625 

Buildings, height, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 686 . By Mr. Bannister. 669 

Buildings, zones, etc., regul., art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 687. By Mr. Bannister. 670 

Buildings, zones. Art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 848. By Cities Com. 724 

Charter bills, regul., art. 3, § 18. 

Pr. 759. By Mr. Wickersham. 624 

Charters, amending by legis., limit, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 748. By Mr. Barnes. 315 

Charters, amend, on petition of village only, 
art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 753. By Legislative Powers Com. . . 700 
Condemnation, excess, pub. improv., art. 1, 

§§ 6 , 7. 

Pr. 512. By Mr. Parsons. 500 

Condemnation, just compensation, art. 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 453. By Mr. Frank. 441 

Condemnation, power of, art. 1, § 6 . 

Pr. 454. By Mr. Frank. 442 

Courts, limited juris., estab., art. 6 , § 18. 

Pr. 372. By Mr. Sears. 367 

Creation, gov’t, regul., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 797. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 254 

Debts, funded, maturing, art. 8 , new §. 

Pr. 482. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 470 

Debts, serial bonds for, art. 8 , § 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Corh. 713 

Elec., proposit’ns to spend money, art. 8 , § 10. 

Pr. 35. By Mr. Mereness. 35 

Electricity, water, products of prison labor, 
art. 3, § 29. 

Pr. 768. By Mr. Tierney. 465 

Emplovees of, voting for village officials, art. 

2 , § 1 . 

Pr. 670. By Mr. Green. 654 

Emplovees, receiving pension, art. 10, new 
10 . 

Pr. 634. By Mr. Steinbrink. 618 

Excess compen., prohib., art. 3. 

Pr. 861. By Legislative Powers Com. . 696 
F^'anchise grants, perpetuity, art. 3, new §. 

Pr. 537. By Mr. Low. 28 





























































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^ Int. No. 

Franchises, indeterminate, prohib., art. 3, 

§ 30, new. 

Pr. 563. By Mr. Low . 548 

Funded debts of, refund, etc., art. 12, § 1. 

Pr. 275. By Mr. Vanderlyn.272 

General laws for, adopt own charter, art. 12, 

§§ 1-3, and new §§ 4, 6. 

Pr. 698. By Mr. Cobb.. 650 

Government of, regrulating, art. 12. 

Pr. 851. By Cities Com. 712 

Health, use forest lands, etc., art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 375. By Mr. Dow.. 370 

Highways, cost, apportioning, art. 7, § 13, 
new. 

Pr. 811. By Mr. Westwood . 479 

Home rule, art. 3, §§ 26, 27, and new §; art. 

10, § 2; art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 535. By Mr. Low.. 313 

Home rule, adopt own charters, art. 12, new. 

Pr. 568. By Mr. Eisner...... 553. 

Home rule, guaranteeirig, art. 12. 

Pr. 335. By Mr. Franchot........ 331 

Home rule, art. 12, §§ 1, 2. 

Pr. 671. By Mr. Green... 655 

Lands under w’ater, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 549 

Labor, public work, 8'hr. day, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 401. By Mr. Curran. 394 

Municipal prop., outside limits, tax, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 733. By Mr. A. E. Smith.'. . 4,93 

Officers, election, appointment, term, etc., art 
10, § 2. 

Pr. 323. By Mr. L. M. Martin. 319 

Officers, nomination, etc., art. 2, new § 7. 

Pr, 366. By Mr. Low... 361 

Officials, elec, not provided for, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 211. By Mr. Sanders... 210 

Officials, extra pay, prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 386, By Mr. Mereness..... 379 

Officials, extra compen.. prohib., art. 3, § 28. 

Pr. 800. By Mr. R. B. Smith. 289 

Officials, removal, certiorari review, art. 10, 

§ 1, and new §. 

Pr. 472. By Mr. F. Martin. 460 

Officials, with pensions, limit salary, art. 

10, new §. 

Pr. 517. By Mr. F. Martin. 505 

Officials, whose elec, not provided for, art. 10, 

§ 2. 

Pr. 146. B}^ Mr. M. Saxe. 146 

Optional village gov’t plans, art. 12, §§ 1, 

2 3. 

Pr. 187. By ^Tr. Sanders. 187 

Payroll laws, mandatory, prohib., art. 3, new 

§. 

Pr. 463. By Mr. Baldwin. 451 

Pensions, actuarial basis for, art. 7, new §. 

Pr.^ 703. By Mr. Low . 683 

Property, for public use, taking, art. 1, § 7. 

Pr.‘705. By Mr. Blauvelt . 685 

Property, dangerous to health, etc., taking, 
art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 688. By Mr. Bannister. 671 

Securities, com. to regul., art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 467. By Mr. Baldwin. 455 

Stocks, bonds, gift to village, art. 8, § 10. 

Pr. 108. By Mr. Bockes. 108 


Int. No. . 

Self-government of, guaranteeing, art. 12, 

§§ 1-3; art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 719. By Mr. Wagner.. 68 

Streets, grade change damage, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 612. By Mr. Tuck... 597 

Self-government, guaranteeing, art. 12. 

Pr. 283. By Mr. J. L. O’Brian...280 

Tax officials, appoint., election, art. 10, § 2. 

Pr. 385. By Mr. M. Saxe. 378 

Taxation, public prop., exempt, art. 3, new 
§ 24-a. 

Pr. 635. By Mr. Steinbrink. 619 

Taxes, half to village, new §. 

Pr. 648. By Mr. Donnelly. 632 

Taxes, local, exemptions, abolishing, art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 322. By Mr. Meigs..... 318 

Taxes, local, state prop., exempt, art. 8, new §. 

Pr. 508. By Mr. T. F. Smith. 496 

Taxes, munic. prop., outside limits, art. 3, new 
§ 30. 

Pr. 441. By Mr. Heaton. 429 

Village elections, art. 2, § 6. 

Pr. 228. By Mr. Newburger.. 220 

Water supply, forest lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin...... 375 

Water supply, municipal, use slate lands, art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 


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Wages (see “ Labor ”). 

Weighing, etc., offices for, art. 5, § 8. 

Pr. 597. By Mr. R. B. Smith.582 

Weights and measures, offices for, art. 5, re¬ 
peal § 8. 

Pr. 860. By Mr. Franchot.. 131 

Weights and measures, control engineering 
dept., art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Wives, abandoned, support, art. 6, § 18. 

Pr. 557. By Mr. Stimson. 542 

Woman suffrage. (See “Elections.”) 

Workmen’s compen., dept, of, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 560. By Mr. Parsons. 545 

Workmen’s Compens. juris. Industry Dept., 
art. 5 , new §. 

Pr. 273. By Mr. Parsons. 270 

Workmens’ compen. law, enacting, art. 1, § 19. 

Pr. 23. By Mr. Aiken. 23 

Workmen’s compen., laws for, art. 1, § 18. 

Pr. 18. By Mr. Aiken. 18 

Workmen’s compen., occupational diseases, 
art. 1, §§ 18, 19. 

Pr. 865. By Industrial Interests Com.. 714 


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Canals, surplus waters, leasing, art. 7, § 8. 

Pr. 845. By Canals Com. 7io 

City debt limit, water debts excluded, art. 

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Pr. 681. By Mr. Sanders. 665 

Com. of, appointment powers, art. 5, §§ 10, 11, 
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Forest' lands, use, water supply canals, 
streams, new art; art. 7, § 7 repeal. 

Pr. 852. By Conservation Com. 

Improvement, * land for, condemna’n, art. 1, 

§ 7 . 

Pr. 633. By Mr. Steinbrink. 

Lands under water, grants, art. 1, new §. 

Pr. 561. By Mr. Low. 

Lands under water, grants, art. 3, new § 30. 

Pr. 564. By Mr. Low. 

Pollution of waters, prohib., art. 7, § 7.. 

Pr. 299. By Mr. Bannister. 

Power, develop., taking prop, for, art. 1, § 6. 

Pr. 406. By Mr. Baldwin. 

Power sites, condemnation for, art. 1, §§ 6, 7. 

Pr. 870. Bill of Rights Com. 

Private lands for, public use, art. 7, §§ 7, 7-a. 

Pr. 71. By Mr. C. H. Young. 

Public Service Com. to regulate, art. 5, new §. 

Pr. 708. By Mr. Landreth . 

Storage, municipal water supply, etc., art. 7, 
§ 7. 

Pr. 585. By Mr. Angell. 

Storage, power, lands for, etc., art. 1, § 7. 

Pr. 524. By Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Storage, regul., lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr..375. By Mr. Dow. 

Storage regul., lands for, art. 1, § 7. 

^r. 707. By Mr. Landreth. 

Storage, regul., power, land for, art. 1, | 6. 

Pr. 352. By Mr. Bunce.. 

Storage, regnl.. water power, prop, for, art. 1, 
§ 7, and 2 new §§, 

Pr. 407. By Mr. R. B. Smith... 

Supervision of, by interior dept., art. 5, § 2. 

Pr. 86. Bv Mr. E. K Smith. 

Vessels subject to pressure by, regul., art. 3, 
new §. 

Pr. 772. By Mr. Fogarty. 


Int. No. 

Water debts, excluded from city debt limit, 
art. 8, § 10, § 12 new. 

Pr. 862. By Cities Com. 713 

Waters, div. of, conserv’n dept., etc., art. 7, 
new '§ 7. 

Pr. 450. By Mr. Green. 438 

Water, electricity, 4th cl. villages, art. 3, • 

§ 29. 

Pr. 768. By Mr. Tierney. 465 

Waters, juris. Forest & Water Com., art. 7, 

§ 7. 

Pr. 492. By Mr. Dow. 480 

Water power, control, engineer, art. 5, new |. 

Pr. 661. By Mr. Landreth. 645 

Water power, surplus waters, etc., art. 1, 

§ 10 . 

Pr. 817. By Mr. Cullinan. 575 

Water storage, municipal water supply, etc., 
art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 382. By Mr. Baldwin. 375 

Water supply, in forest preserve, laws, art. 

7, § 7. 

Pr. 154. By Mr. Dunlap. 154 

Water supply, state lands for, art. 7, § 7. 

Pr. 316. By Mr. Baldwin. 312 

Water supply, water power lands, etc., art. 

7, § 7- 

Pr. 220. By Mr. Bunce. 219 

Water, water power, use of, regul., art. 1, 
new §. 

Pr. 487. By Mr. Rodenbeck. 475 

Waterways, appro, for, regul,, art. 3 § 20. 

Pr. 854. By Finance Com. 719 

Water ways, dept, of, art. 4, new; art. 5, new. 

Pr. 555. By Mr. J. G. Saxe. 540 

Waterwavs, juris, pub. wks. div., art. 5, § 1. 

Pr. 727. Bv Mr. J. G. Saxe. 694 


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Constitutional Convention Resolutions 


RESOLUTIONS 


APRIL 7 

By Mr. M. SAXE.—Whereas, On the 15th day of 
June next occurs the seven hundredth anniversary 
of the adoption of the Great Charter of English 
liberty, 

Resolved, That this Convention commemorate 
said event on that day by appropriate exercises, 
and 

Resolved, That tlie President be and he hereby 
is authorized to make the necessary arrangements 
therefor. 

Referred to Committee on Rules. 

May 19. Reported and adopted. 


APRIL 27 

By Mr. PARSONS.—Whereas, There is to be 
submitted to the people at the general election in 
this year an amendment to section 1 of article II 
of the Constitution, which amendment provides 
for woman suffrage and reads as follows: 

Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur). 
That section one of article two of the constitution 
be amended to read as follows: 

Section 1. Every [male] citizen of the age of 
twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen 
for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state 
one year next preceding an election, and for the 
last four months a resident of the county and 
for the last thirty days a resident of the election 
district in which he or she may offer his or her 
vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in 
the election district of which he or she shall at 
the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for 
all officers that now are or hereafter may be 
elective by the people, and upon all questions 
which may be submitted to the vote of the people, 
provided that a citizen by marriage shall have 
been an inhabitant of the United States for five 
years; and provided that in time of war no 
elector in the actual military service of the state, 
or of the United States, in the army or navy 
thereof, shall be deprived of his or her vote by 
reason of his or her absence from such election 
district; and the legislature shall hvae power to 
provide the manner in which and the time and 
place at which such absent voters may vote, and 
for the return and canvass of their votes in the 
election districts in which they respectively 
reside. 

And Whereas, By virtue of section 3 of article 
XIV of the Constitution, any amendment pro¬ 
posed by this Convention relating to the same 
subject will if approved be deemed to supersede 
the foregoing amendment proposed by the Legis¬ 
lature and hence misunderstanding and confusion 
may arise. 

Now, therefore, in order to avoid misunder¬ 
standing and confusion and to provide that if 


. the people shall by a majority of the electors 
i voting thereon approve and ratify said legis¬ 
lative amendment the same shall take effect, 
and that if they shall not approve and ratify the 
same woman suffrage shall not take effect, it is 

Resolved (1), That the Convention do not sub¬ 
mit any amendment relating to the subject of 
woman suffrage; 

(2) That the Convention do not submit a com¬ 
plete section 1 of article II of the Constitution 
or any substitute therefor as part of a proposed 
revised Constitution; and 

(3) That if the Convention shall submit any 
other amendment to said section 1 of article II 
it submit the same in such a manner that neither 
its approval and ratification by the people nor 
its failure of such approval and ratification shall 
affect the determinative effect of the aforesaid 
popular vote on the said legislative amendment. 

Referred to Suffrage Com. 


APRIL 28 

By Mr. WIGGINS.— Resolved, That the clerk of 
this Convention be directed to procure from tne 
clerk of the court of appeals the following infor¬ 
mation : 

1. The number of criminal appeals presented 
to thecourt during each of the past five years up 
to January 1, 1915. 

2. The number of cases on appeal filed with the 
court pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 190 of 
the code of civil procedure during each of the 
past five years. 

3. The number of cases on appeal filed with the 
court pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 190 of 
the code of civil procedure during each of the 
past five years. 

4. The number of cases on appeal filed with the 
court pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 191 of' 
the code of civil procedure during each of the 
past five years. 

5. The number of cases on appeal filed with the] 

court in which the decision of the appellate di-i 
vision was not unanimous. i 

6. The total number of cases on appeal which! 

have been placed on the calendar but not reached! 
for argument on the first of January of each year] 
during the past five years. | 

Referred to Library and Information Com. i 

(See substitute resolution reported by Library, 
and Information Com. on May 6.) 1 


MAY 4 S 

By Mr. STEINBRINK.— Resolved, That the sec-M 
ret?.ry of this convention ascertain from the officerM; 
hAving custody of the records, the names, agefW 










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and previous judicial services of the official 
referees acting as such in the first and second de¬ 
partments, the salaries paid to each and what 
public expense, if any, there is in connection with 
the conduct of the office and the number of actions 
or proceedings heard and disposed of by each of 
them, and. 

Further Kesolved, That such information be ob¬ 
tained whether it applies to former justices of the 
supreme court or to former municipal court 
judges, and also the names, ages, and previous 
judicial services of the city court judges eligible 
to appointment as official referees under the re¬ 
cent act of the legislature. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. with 
instructions to communicate with the Judiciary 
Com. before reporting. 

. , By Mr. PARSONS.— Resolved, That the secre¬ 
tary of state be, and he hereby is, requested to 
submit to the convention copies of all proposed 
amendments to the constitution which the legisla¬ 
ture has submitted to the people for approval at 
the regular election this year, and that the same, 
when received, be printed as a document. 

Adopted. 


By Mr. WESTWOOD.— Resolved, That the com¬ 
missioner of highways be requested to report to 
this convention as soon as practicable: 

1. The amount of money actually obtained by 
each of the counties of the state from the first 
$50,000,000 highway bond issue; 

2. The amount of money allotted to each of 
the counties of the state based on mileage, area 
and population from the second $50,000,000 high¬ 
way bond issue; 

3. As to each of the counties of the state the 
amounts of excess or deficiencies in the allotment 
of the second $50,000,000 issue compared with the 
amounts received from the first $50,000,000 issue. 

Referred to Public Utilities Com. 

May 6. Reported amended to read as follows: 
Resolved, That the Commissioner of Highways be 
requested to report to this convention as soon as 
practicable the following information in respect to 
each of the counties of the state, pertaining to 
the so-called state highways and the so-called 
county highways separately: 

1. The mileage completed or under contract and 
the cost thereof, paid or to be paid, from the first 
fifty million dollar highway bond issue. 

2. The amount of money allotted from the 
second fifty million dollar highway bond issue. 

Adopted. 


MAY 6 

By Mr. MARSHALL.— Resolved, That the clerk 
of the court of appeals be requested to examine 
the records of all cases argued in the court of ap¬ 
peals during the years 1913 and 1914, respectively, 
whether the same be reported in full or in mem¬ 
orandum, and to report with all convenient speed 
with respect to each of said years separately, the 
following facts: 


L As to the general subject-matter of said 
causes. 

2. As to the number of cases involving questions 
of constitutional law. 

3. As to the number of cases involving the 
interpretation of general statutes, of this state 
and of the United States. 

4. As to the number of cases involving questions 
of criminal law. 

5. As to the number of cases involving the in¬ 
terpretation of municipal charters. 

6. As to the number of cases involving the in¬ 
terpretation of wills. 

7. As to the number of cases in which appeal, 
were allowed by the several appellate divisions, 
pursuant to section 190 of the code of civil pro¬ 
cedure. 

8. As to the number of cases in which appeals 
were allowed by the several appellate divisions, 
pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 91 of the 
code of civil procedure. 

9. As to the number of cases in which appeals 
were allowed by a judge of the court of appeals 
pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 191 of the 
code of civil procedure. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

(See substitute resolution reported by Library 
and Information Com. on May 6.) 

By Mr. WAGNER.— Resolved, That the state 
comptroller be requested to transmit to this con¬ 
vention a statement showing the amount and term 
of all bonds issued under the provisions of article 
7 of the constitution and now outstanding; also 
the amount in each sinking fund for the redemp¬ 
tion of such bonds together with the amount 
which should be in each sinking fund if such 
fund was maintained on a 3 per cent, amortization 
basis. 

Laid on table under the rules. 

May 6. Referred to Library and Infcirniation 
Com. 

June 4. Reported favorably. Report tabled. 

June 8. Report adopted. 


MAY 6 

By The COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY AND IN¬ 
FORMATION— Resolved, That the clerk of the 
court of appeals be requested to examine the 
records of all cases argued in the court of ap¬ 
peals during the years 1913 and 1914, respectively, 
whether the same be reported in full or in memo¬ 
randum, and to report with all convenient speed 
with respect to each of said years separately, the 
following facts: 

First, as to the general subject-matter of such 
causes. 

Second, as to the number of cases involving 
questions of constitutional law. 

Third, as to the number of cases involving the 
interpretation of general statutes of this state and 
of the United States. 

Fourth, as to the number of cases involving 
questions of criminal law. 

Fifth, as to the number of cases involving in¬ 
terpretation of municipal charters. 







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Sixth, as to the number of cases involving the 
interpretation of wills. 

Seventh, as to the number of cases in which 
appeals were allowed by the several appellate 
divisions pursuant to section 190 of the code of 
civil procedure, and that he state separately the 
number of such cases in which appeals were so 
taken under each subdivision of said section. 

Eighth, as to the number of cases in which 
appeals were allowed by the several appellate 
divisions, pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 191 
of the code of civil procedure, and that he state 
separately the number of such cases in which 
appeals were so taken under each subdivision of 
said section. 

Ninth, as to the number of cases in which 
appeals were allowed by a judge of the court of 
appeals pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 191 
of the code of civil procedure. 

Tenth, as to the number of cases of appeal filed 
with the court in which the decision in the. ap¬ 
pellate division was not unanimous. 

Eleventh, as to the total number of cases on 
appeal which had been placed upon the calendar 
but not reached for argument on the 1st of Jan¬ 
uary for each year during the past five years. 

Adopted. 

By Mr. WIGGINS.— Resolved, That fhe secre¬ 
tary of this convention procure as speedily as 
possible from the secretary of state of each state 
of the union or from such other sources as shall 
be most convenient, a record of the number of 
state officers appearing upon the ballot in each 
state at the general election for state officers. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 


MAY 7 

By Mr. McKINNEY.— Resolved, That the comp¬ 
troller be requested to furnish to this convention 
a statement of the amount of money appropriated 
or expended for all legislative purposes in each 
year from and including the year 1901 to the 
year 1915; such a statement shall include the 
amounts appropriated or expended in and for each 
year for legislative salaries, clerical or other 
assistance of every kind, printing, supplies of 
every kind, expenses of all general, special or in¬ 
vestigating committees, including amounts paid to 
counsel or employees and all incidental or other 
charges and expenses pertaining to the functions 
or activities of either house of the legislature, or 
the members thereof during the period above 
specified. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

May 21.— The Library Committee reported that 
this information is to be found In the annual 
report of the comptroller for 1915 and preceding 
years. Report adopted. 


MAY 11 

By Mr. 'DUNMORE.— Resolved, That the secre¬ 
tary of state be requested to furnish to the 
convention the number of electors who voted at 


any election at which any constitutional amend¬ 
ment or amendments were submitted to the peo¬ 
ple, and the number of votes cast for or against 
such amendment or amendments. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

May 21.— The Library Committee reported that 
this information is to be found in the legislative 
manual for 1915 at pages 214 to 219. Report 
adopted. ‘ 


By Mr. KIRBY.— Resolved, That the comp¬ 
troller be directed to secure and furnish the con¬ 
vention with a statement showing the compensa¬ 
tion received by the various county treasurers of 
the state where fees are retained by them in ad¬ 
dition to a salary, during the period of the last 
full term of office, the same to show the amount 
received each year thereof from the collection of 
transfer taxes, liquor taxes, sales of land for un¬ 
paid taxes and from the receipt and disbursement 
of moneys paid into county treasuries by order 
of the various courts. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

May 14.—The Committee on Library and In¬ 
formation to which was referred Mr. Kirby’s res¬ 
olution reported favorably the following resolu¬ 
tion, which was adopted: 

Resolved, That the comptroller be requested to 
furnish, with all convenient speed, to the secre¬ 
tary of the convention a statement showing the 
following information: 

1. The official compensation received during the 
last fiscal year by the several county treasurers 
by way of salary. 

2. The fees they received and retained in addi¬ 
tion to their salaries, and the amount of such 
compensations received and retained by them dur¬ 
ing the last fiscal year, and a statement showing 
the source from which the fees are derived. 


MAY 12 

By Mr. QUIGG.— Resolved, That the president 
shall appoint a select committee on the submis¬ 
sion of any proposed constitution or constitutional 
amendment which shall have been adopted by 
this convention, to consist of seven members, 
which committee, in accordance with section 2 of 
article 14 of the existing constitution, shall re¬ 
port to this convention, after or before June 11, 
1915, the time and the manner in which any pro¬ 
posed constitution or constitutional amendment 
adopted by this convention shall be submitted to 
the vote of the electors of the state; and 

Resolved, That the report of said committee as 
so made or as hereafter duly authorized to be 
made, shall, when duly made, be straightway com¬ 
mitted to the committee of the whole with 
precedence. 

Referred to Rules Com. 


Mr. CULLINAN.— Resolved, That the state 
board of charities forward to this convention a 
statement of the number of inmates of the several 
institutions over which they exercise superin- 









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tendence or control, who at or before the time of 
their admission to said several institutions, prp<5- 
ticed the habit of smoking cigarettes. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 


By Mr. CULLINAN.— Resolved, That the super¬ 
intendent of prisons forward to this convention 
a statement of the number of persons committed 
to the several prisons, penitentiaries, reform 
schools or other institutions over which he exer¬ 
cises superintendence or control, who practiced 
the habit of smoking cigarettes at or before the 
time they were committed respectively to said 
institutions. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 


By ]\Ir. CULLINAN.— Resolved, That the state 
hospital commission forward to this convention a 
statement of the number of patients in or persons 
admitted to the various state hospitals or other 
institutions of which they have charge, or over 
which they exercise superintendence or control, 
who have been admitted to or dii ected to be 
placed in said several institutions by reason of a 
condition induced or occasioned in whole or in 
part by the use of cigarettes. The numbers of 
such persons in said several institutions should 
be specified by each institution separately. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 


MAY IS 

By Mr. C. A. WEBBER.— Resolved, That the 
state comptroller be requested to furnish the fol¬ 
lowing information from the reports in transfer 
tax proceedings filed in his oflSce: 

1. The following details in relation to each of 
the last twenty-five parcels of real estate in each 
county of the state appraised for the transfer tax: 

a. The name of the deceased. 

b. The name of the city or town in which the 
parcel is located. 

c. The assessed value as reported. 

d. The appraised value as fixed. 

2. The foregoing information to be arranged by 
counties according to the location of the parcels, 
and to be in tabular form. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

June 4. Reported amended to read as follows: 

Resolved, That the state comptroller be re¬ 
quested to furnish the following information from 
the reports in transfer tax proceedings filed in 

his office: - . . e 

1. The following details in relation to each of 
the last 5 parcels of real estate in each county of 
the state appraised for the transfer tax: 

(a) The name of the deceased. 

(b) The name of the city or town in which the 
parcel is located. 

(c) The assessed value as reported. 


(d) The appraised value as fixed. 

2. The foregoing information to be arranged by 
counties according to the location of the parcels, 
and to be in tabular form. 

Adopted. 

By Mr. WIGGINS.— Resolved, That the clerk 
of this convention procure from the clerk of the 
appellate division of each department the number 
of appeals from order and judgments filed during 
the calendar year and the number of appeals upon 
the calendar which have not been reached for 
argument on the first day of January for each 
year during the past three years and during the 
years 1900, 1901, 1902. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

By Mr. COBB.— Resolved, That the attorney- 
general be requested to furnish to this convention, 
with all convenient speed, the following informa¬ 
tion relative to matters pending before the court 
of claims: 


The number of claims pending, classified by the 
years in which the claims were filed. 


II. 

The amoimt involved in the claims so filed, also 
classified by years. 

III. 

The number of claims disposed of by the court 
of claims or board of claims in each year of the 
last five years. 

IV. 

The number of claims adjusted without recourse 
to the court of claims or board of claims in each 
year of the last five years. 

V. 

The total amount paid by the state in satisfac¬ 
tion of claims in each year of the last five years. 

VI. 

The geographical distribution of pending claims, 
stated by counties. 

VII. 

A classification of pending claims by number 
and amount involved, showing: 

1. Claims arising from appropriations made by 
the state in the course of the barge canal improve¬ 
ment. 

2. Cases on contract growing out of the barge 
canal improvement. 

3. Cases in the nature of tort growing out of 
the barge canal improvement. 

4. Cases on contract, unrelated to the barge 
canal improvement. 

5. Cases in the nature of tort unrelated to the 
barge canal improvement. 

To Library and Information Com. (See Reso¬ 
lution of Library Com. of May 21. 






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By Mr. BUXBAUM.—Whereas, There have 
been but very few changes in the present constitu¬ 
tion since its adoption, and whereas, it is deemed 
advisable that only such changes therein be made 
by the delegates to this convention as may be 
necessary to meet existing conditions, and, 
whereas, it is advisable that the efforts of the 
delegates be concentrated upon the desired changes 
and that the work of this convention be performed 
as speedily as consistent with careful and 
thorough consideration of the matters requiring 
its special attention, be it 

Resolved, That this convention give its main 
attention to the following amendments to the 
present constitution: 

First: An amendment changing the present 
judicial system and limiting exemptions from per¬ 
formance of jury duty. 

Second: An amendment changing the present 
methods of taxation. 

Third: An amendment concerning' the state 
finances, revenues and expenditures. 

Fourth: An amendment concerning the con¬ 
servation of the natural resources of the state. 

Fifth: An amendment relative to workmen’s 
compensation and rights. 

Sixth: An amendment relative to civil service ' 
appointments, promotions and removal of civil 
service employees. 

Seventh: An amendment providing for a new 
legislative apportionment and fixing the number 
and terms of senators and assemblymen, their 
compensation, powers and procedure. 

Eighth: An amendment relative to the short 
ballot. 

Tabled. 


MAY 18 

By Mr. OSTRANDER.—Resolved, That the 
cleric of the court of claims and the comptroller 
be and are hereby requested to transmit to this 
convention, with all convenient speed, the follow¬ 
ing information relating to the courts of claims 
and the boards of claims and to matters pending 
and disposed of therein, during each of the ten 
years last past, so far as such information shall 
be of record in their respective offices, viz.: 

(1) The amount of salaries, fees, expenses and 
disbursements paid to all judges, attendants, 
clerks, stenographers and other employees, wit¬ 
nesses, counsel and agents: viz.: 

(2) The number of days of actual sittings of 
such court or board in each year. 

(3) The number of cases disposed of in each 
year and the aggregate of awards made in each 
year. 

(4) The number of cases disposed of in each 
year, in which the award was $500 or less and 
$200 or less respectively, and the aggregate of 
such awards in each year. 

(5) The number of times the name of such 
court or board has been changed during said 
year, and the alleged reasons for such changes. 

Further resolved. That the superintendent of 
public works, the state engineer and surveyor and 
the attorney-general transmit to the convention, 
at their earliest convenience the following infor¬ 
mation relating to matters pending and disposed 


of during each of the ten years last past, before 
the court of claims and the board of claims, so 
far as such information shall be of record in their 
respective offices, viz.: 

(1) The amounts paid in each year to officers, 
employees, agents, investigators and representa¬ 
tives of such departments respectively for serv¬ 
ices, fees, expenses and disbursements in relation 
to matters before said courts or boards. 

(2) The amounts paid or incurred for services, 
fees and expenses of witnesses, consulting ex¬ 
perts, special counsel and otherwise in relation 
to matters before said courts or boards. 

Referred to Committee on Library and Informa¬ 
tion. (See Resolution of Library Com. of May 
21 .) 


MAY 19 

By Mr. RODENBECK.— Resolved, That in pre¬ 
senting reports to this convention, each committee 
be required to accompany its report with a con¬ 
cise statement of the reasons for each proposed 
amendment recommended by it, and that these 
reasons be printed in connection with the pro¬ 
posed amendment. 

Referred to Rules Committee. 


MAY 20 

By Mr. MARSHALL.— Resolved, That the Gov¬ 
ernor is respectfully requested, if in his judgment 
it shall seem proper, to cause a report to be pre¬ 
pared by such agency as he may select and to 
transmit the same to the ^^onvention at his earliest 
convenience with respect ti> the following matters: 

1. The number of prisoners confined in the sev¬ 
eral state prisons, reformatories and peniten¬ 
tiaries of the state on January 1, 1915. 

2. The number of applications for pardon and 
commutation of sentence, respectively, filed in the 
executive department during each of the years 
from 1900 to 1915. 

3. The number of pardons and commutations 
of sentence, respectively, granted or refused in 
each of the said years. 

, 4. The number of applications for pardons and 
commutations of sentence, respectively, pending 
and undetermined in the executive department on 
January 1, 1915. 

5. The number of applications for pardon and 
commutation of sentence, respectively, filed in the 
executive department since January 1, 1915. 

6. The number of applications for pardon and 
commutation of sentence, respectively, disposed 
of and the disposition made of them since Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1915. 

Referred to Committee on Library and Informa¬ 
tion. 

May 21. Reported and adopted. 

By Mr. QUIGO.— Resolved, (1) That the Legis¬ 
lature should be composed, as at present, of two 
houses. 

Resolved, (2) That it is undesirable that the 
ntembership of either house should be increased. 







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Resolved, (3) That the holding of annual ses¬ 
sions is expedient. 

Referred to Committee on Legislative Organi¬ 
zation. 

By Mr. RODENBECK.— Whereas, The consti¬ 
tution in its present form is wholly lacking in 
any uniformity in capitalization, the same words 
appearing some times in the same section, capi¬ 
talized and uncapitalized, and it is important that 
this fundamental document should be as perfect 
grammatically as it is possible to make it: 

Resolved, That in the revision and engross¬ 
ment of the constitution the committee on revision 
and engrossment be authorized and directed to 
adopt a uniform system of capitalization and 
apply the same, without indicating the changes 
made, not only to amendments proposed to the 
constitution but to sections and parts of sec¬ 
tions to which no amendments are proposed so 
that the entire constitution may be uniform in 
this respect. 

Laid on table. 

By Mr. CURRAN.— Whereas it is not only 
desirable that the citizens of the state should 
be advised of proposed amendments to the con¬ 
stitution but that this convention should be in¬ 
formed of any suggestions that any citizen of 
the state desires to present to the convention for 
its consideration 

Resolved, That the heads of the various de¬ 
partments and branches of the' state government 
and of the political subdivisions thereof and all 
other public officers and the heads of educational 
and financial institutions, labor and industrial 
organizations and the public generally be invited 
in some appropriate manner to be determined 
by the committee on rules to present through 
their respective representatives in this conven¬ 
tion suggestions for proposed amendments to the 
constitution. 

Laid on table. 


MAY 21 

The Library Committee to which was referred 
the resolutions of Mr. Cobb of May 13 and of Mr. 
Ostrander of May 18, relative to obtaining certain 
information from the attorney-general, reported 
in favor of the following resolution in place of the 
Cobb and Ostrander resolutions: 

Resolved, That the attorney-general be requested 
to furnish to this convention, with all convenient 
speed, the following information relative to mat¬ 
ters pending before the court of claims: 

1. The number of claims pending, classified by 
the years in which the claims were filed. 

2. The amount involved in the claims as filed, 
also classified by years. 

3. The number of claims adjusted without re¬ 
course to the court of claims or board of claims 
in each year of the last five years. 

4. The total amount paid by the state in satis¬ 
faction of claims in each year of the last five 
vears. 

5. The geographical distribution of pending 
claims, stated by counties. 

6. A classification of pending claims by number 
and amount involved, showing: 

a. Claims arising from appropriations made by 


the state in the course of the barge canal im¬ 
provement. 

b. Cases on contract growing out of the barge 
canal improvement. 

Further Resolved, That the clerk of the court 
of claims and the comptroller be and are hereby 
requested to transmit to this convention, with all 
convenient speed, the following information relat¬ 
ing to the courts of claims and the boards of 
claims and to matters pending and disposed of 
therein, during each of the ten years last past, so 
far as as such information shall be of record in 
their respective offices, viz.: 

1. The amount of salaries, fees, expenses and 
disbursements paid to all judges, attendants, 
clerks, stenographers and other employees, wit¬ 
nesses, counsel and agents. 

2. The number of days of actual sittings of such 
court or board in each year. 

3. The number of cases disposed of in each year 
and the aggregate of awards made in each year. 

4. The number of cases disposed of in each year, 
in which the award was $500 or less and $200 or 
less, respectively, and the aggregate of such wards 
in each year. 

5. The number of times the name of such court 
or board has been changed during said year, and 
the alleged reasons for such changes. 

Further Resolved, That the superintendent of 
public works, the state engineer and surveyor and 
the attorney-general transmit to the convention, 
at their earliest convenience, the following in¬ 
formation relating to matters pending and dis¬ 
posed of during each of the ten years last pas1\, 
before the courts of claims and the boards of 
claims, so far as such information shall be of 
record in their respective offices, viz.: 

1. The amounts paid in each year to officers, 
employees, agents, investigators and representa¬ 
tives of such departments, respectively, for serv¬ 
ices, fees, expenses and disbursements in relation 
to matters before said courts or boards. 

2. The amounts paid or incurred for services, 
fees and expenses of witnesses, consulting experts, 
special counsel and otherwise in relation to mat¬ 
ters before said courts or boards. 

Report adopted. 


MAY 25 

By Mr. GRIFFIN.—Resolved, That the Com¬ 
mittee on Library and Information ascertain, as 
speedily as possible, from the commissioners of 
the sinking fund of the city of New York and the 
proper authorities in other first-classs cities in 
the State of New York, the following information: 

1. The names and addresses of societies receiv¬ 
ing fines, penalties and license fees pursuant to 
statutes of this state. 

2. The amount of fines, penalties and license 
fees paid to each of such societies during the last 
fiscal year. 

3. The statutes of this state under which said 
fines, penalties and license fees are paid, and be it 
further 

Resolved, That the said information, when ob¬ 
tained, be transmitted to the Committee on Legis¬ 
lative Powers and the Committee on Taxation 
and be printed as a document of this Convention. 

Referrea ^ Lib“ary and Information Com. 







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May 27. The Committee on Library and In¬ 
formation, to which was referred the resolution 
introduced by Mr. Griffin, May 25, reported the 
following amended resolution which was adopted. 

Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sink¬ 
ing Fund of the city of New York be requested 
to furnish to the Secretary of this Convention 
the names and addresses of the societies to which 
payment is made by the City of New York of fines 
received as penalties for infractions of the law, 
and what amounts were paid during the year 
1914 by the city of New York and the provisions 
of the law pursuant to which such payments were 
made. Also a statement of the societies to whom 
the city paid, either in whole or part, the amounts 
received as license fees. 


MAY 27 

By Mr. CULLINAN.— Resolved, That the State 
Engineer and Surveyor furnish this Convention 
with a statement showing the location where the 
surplus waters of the canals of the state were 
used by persons, associations, corporations or 
others for the development of water power, prior 
to the construction of the Barge Canal Improve¬ 
ment, pursuant to the terms of the act in that 
behalf and the referendum approving the same; 
and what moneys if any, were paid or contracted 
to be paid for the same. 

That the State Engineer and Surveyor furnish 
this Convention with a statement showing the 
localities where and the amount of water power 
development arising out of the construction of 
the Barge Canal improvement, together with the 
names of the persons, associations, corporations or 
others using the surplus waters of the canal for 
the development of water power; and what 
moneys are being paid or contracted to be paid 
for the. same. 

Referred to Committee on Library and In¬ 
formation. 

June 18. Reported favorably and adopted. 

By Mr. CULLINAN.— Resolved, That the 
Canal Board furnish this Convention with a record 
of all matters and transactions with reference to 
the use or lease of lands of the State; the use or 
lease of the surplus waters of the canals; all 
transactions, contracts or agreements involving 
the use, lease or sale of the surplus waters of the 
canals or of any waterway of the State over 
which the Canal Board exercises supervision or 
control or involving the development of water 
power therefrom. 

To Library and Information Com. 


JUNE 8 

Committee on Legislative Organization, to 
which was referred the resolution of Mr. Quigg, 
which read as follows: 

Resolved, {1) That the legislature should be 
composed at present of two houses. 


••Resolved, (2) That it is undesirable that the « 
membership of either house should be increased. 3 

“Resolved, (3) That the holding of annual ■ 
sessions is expedient,” reported such resolutions * 
amended so as to rea4: ^ 

“ Resolved, That the legislature shall be com¬ 
posed of a Senate and Assembly. 

“ Resolved further. That the members of the ■ 
Senate be elected from Senate districts and that I 
the members of Assembly be elected from Assem- I 
bly districts.” 

In reporting and recommending the adoption of 
these resolutions, the committee submitted the ■ 
following considerations: 

“ 1. It is very desirable, if, indeed, it is not * 
necessary, that the committee shall have the 
judgment of the convention upon the propo¬ 
sitions involved in the resolutions here re- . 
ported. If such judgment is not given set- ’ 
tling the questions as to whether the legislature ' 
shall hereafter consist of one or two houses and 
there should be a disagreement with the report 
of the committee on these propositions when 9 
contained in a final report, in case of disagree- | 
ment by the convention with the committee on 1 
these two basic matters, the entire subsequent | 
work of the committee with respect to the num- 1 
ber of Senators and Assemblymen and the dis- J 
tricts into which the state shall be divided for m 
the purpose of electing such Senators and " 
Assemblymen would go for nought. Inasmuch as 
such work will be enormous it is the practically 
unanimous sense of the committee that the points 
embodied in the resolutions here reported should 
be first definitely settled by action of the con¬ 
vention, and it therefore makes this report of 
Mr. Quigg’s resolution and requests that action 
may be taken thereon by the convention. The 
committee has considered with much care the 
question whether there should continue to be 
two houses of the legislature, or whether the 
propositions submitted and argued before the 
committee for one house should prevail. It is 
recognized that there is much to be said, and there 
has been much said, to the committee, that is a])- 
pealing, in favor of one house. 

“ In view, however, of the fact that the change 
from two houses to one would be radical, 
that it would be violence to the traditions 
of the state, and in view of the practically 
unanimous testimony of those familiar with legis¬ 
lative work in the state that consideration by 
two separate bodies tends to, and does, result in 
more mature deliberation and therefore more 
careful legislation, the committee reports the 
resolutions before recited and asks the considera¬ 
tion of the convention.” 

Minority Report .—A minority report signed by 
E. Clarence Aiken, Otis A. Dennis and J. Sidney 
Bernstein, and dissenting from the majority re¬ 
port, recommended that a resolution be passed 
as follows: 

“Resolved, That the legislature consist of one 
house.” 

Briefly, the reasons offered in the minority re¬ 
port were: 

First, That a single house would concentrate 
responsibility. 










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Second, That the friction sometimes arising be¬ 
tween two houses prevents the passage of good 
measures and often results in a deadlock in 
which even appropriation bills necessary to run 
the state government are held up. 

Third, That the present methods accentuate 
the congestion of important legislation which oc¬ 
curs at the end of a session, when many import¬ 
ant bills are amended and passed with scant at¬ 
tention. 

Fourth, That the maintenance of a house like 
the Assembly costs $400,000 or $500,000, and if 
the salaries are increased, as seems probable, it 
would add still more to the expense. 

Consideration of both reports was postponed 
until June 15. 

June 15. Consideration of report again post¬ 
poned until June 24. 

June 24. Consideration of report postponed 
indefinitely. 


JUNE 10 

By Mr. KIRBY.—Resolved, That the comp¬ 
troller be directed to furnish the convention with 
the amount paid during the last fiscal year to 
special counsel, to the attorney-general, the 
amounts paid to the attorneys and counsel to the 
various departments of the state government and 
the amounts paid to attorneys in the various 
counties of the state in the matter of the collec¬ 
tion of transfer taxes. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

June 18. Reported favorably and adopted. 


JUNE 17 

By Mr. WICKERSHAM.—Resolved, That the 
clerks of the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme 
Court in the second, third and fourth depart¬ 
ments, respectively, be and they are hereby re¬ 
quested to furnish this Convention with the 
following information: 

First. The number of appeals from judgments 
or final orders disposed of in their respective 
courts during each of the five years last past, 
specifving the number of affirmances and modifi¬ 
cations of judgments or final orders in special 
proceedings and the number of reversals. 

Second, Specifying the number of such cases 
involving questions of constitutional law, the 
number involving the interpretation of general 
statutes of the United States and of this State, 
th- number of cases involving questions of 
criminal law, the number of cases involving in¬ 
terpretation of municipal charters, the number 
of case® involving the interpretation of wills, 
the number of cases arising out of contract, and 
the number of cases arising out of actions on 
tort; also the total number of returns filed in 
said courts respectively during each of said 
years; and the total number of cases disposed 


of; also the total number of cases in which 
notices of appeal to the court of appeals from 
the judgment or final order of said court shall 
have been filed. 

Referred to Committee on Library and 
Information. 

June 18. Reported favorably and adopted. 


JUNE 18 

By Mr. CULLINAN.—Resolved, That the 
superintendent of public works be requested to 
furnish this convention with a statement of the 
users of the surplus waters of the canals or 
their feeders, for the development of water power 
or otherwise, and at what places on the canals 
said surplus waters are taken or used by said 
parties. 

That the superintendent of public works fur¬ 
nish this convention with a statement showing 
what contracts or agreements have been entered 
into by and between the superintendent or public 
works and the users of the surplus waters of the 
canals or their feeders. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

July 2. Reported favorably and adopted. 


JUNE 23 

By Mr. REEVES.— Resolved, That each of the 
commissioners of public records in the counties 
of New York and Kings be requested to furnish 
to this Convention, with all convenient speed, the 
following information relative to the organization, 
work and expenses of his office: 

1. The number of employees in his office. 

2. The salary paid to each such employee, and 
the total amount of salaries paid. 

3. The total expense of his office per year. 

4. The nature and amount of the work thus 
far done, and how it has progressed from year 
to year during the continuance of the office. 

5. The nature and amount of the work yet to 
be done, especially with reference to the re-index¬ 
ing of the records and putting them into per¬ 
manent form. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

July 7. Reported favorably and adopted. 


JUNE 24 

By Mr. BAYES.—Resolved, That the secretary 
of state be and he hereby is directed to transmit 
to this Convention as soon as may conveniently 
be done, the number of indictments for murder in 
the first and second degrees found by grand juries 
of the various counties of this State for the past 
five years, up to January 1, 1915, and the number 
of convictions of each degree had upon such indict- 










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merits, including pleas of murder in the second 
degree. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 

July 7. Reported favorably andadopted.' 


JUNE 29 

By Mr. C. A. WEBBER—Resolved, That the 
Board of Estimate of the city of New York, or 
such other officer or officers of said city as can do 
so, be requested to furnish, this Constitutional 
Convention the following information in reference 
to taking possession of private property for city 
use before legally condemned and compensation 
made under section 1439 of the Charter of said 
City: 

1. The number of resolutions passed by the 
Board of Estimate pursuant to the authorization 
of said section. 

2. The number of parcels of land taken pos¬ 
session of under each of said resolutions respec¬ 
tively. 

3. The approximate month and year in which I 
the parcels under each resolution were taken and * 
the approximate month and year in which the i 
compensation therefor was paid. 

Referred to Library and Information Com. 


SEPTEMBER 3 ' 

By Mr. FOLEY.— Resolved, That the Secretary 
of State be respectfully requested to transmit at 
his earliest convenience the results of the last 
enumeration taken in the months of May and 
June of the number of inhabitants of the State, 
by counties, and if said enumeration be not com¬ 
plete, that he be requested to transmit so much 
thereof as is now available. 

Adopted. 

By Mr. WICKERSHAM.—Resolved, That a 
special committee of seven (beside the President 
as member ex-officio) be appointed by the Presi¬ 
dent to prepare and report to the Convention a 
draft of an address to the people respecting the 
proposed new Constitution and amendments. 

Adopted. 




. Sept. 4. The following Committee was ap¬ 
pointed: Messrs. Wickersham, Chairman; Clear¬ 
water, Schurman, Law, Hale, M. J. O’Brien, and 
A. E. Smith. 

Sept. 10. Committee reported submitting pro¬ 
posed address, which was adopted. Ayes 88, 
Noes 47. 

•By Mr. WICKERSHAM.—Resolved, That a 
select committee of five (beside the President as 
member ex-officio) be appointed by the President 
to prepare and report to the Convention a resolu¬ 
tion fixing the time and manner of the submission 
of the proposed Constitution and amendments to 
the vote of the electors of the State. 

Adopted. ‘ ' 

Sept. 4. The following Committee was ap¬ 
pointed: Messrs. Parsons, Chairman; Brenner, 
F. L. Young, Cobb, and D. Nicoll. (President 
ex-officio.) 

Sept. 10. Committee reported recommending 
submission of article on taxation and the article 
on reapportionment, each separately, the rest of 
the revised Constitution to be submitted as a 
whole. Adopted. 


SEPTEMBER 4 ' 

By Mr. CLEARWATER.— Resolved, That the 
proposed constitutional amendment introduced by 
the Committee on Taxation, Int. No. 679, Print 
No. 834, be separately submitted to the people. 

Referred to Special Committee to consider and 
report on manner of submission of proposed con¬ 
stitutional amendments. 

Sept. 10. Committee reported recommending 
separate submission of tax article. Adopted. 


SEPTEMBER 10 

By Mr. STIMSON.—^Resolved, That the President 
be authorized upon the approval of the Revised 
Constitution by the people, to appoint from the 
members of the Convention a committee of thirty 
to tender to the Legislature their services as a 
committee and through appropriate sub-commit¬ 
tees to aid towards the performance of the diffi¬ 
cult and important duties which will rest upon the 
Legislature of 1916. 

Adopted. 


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COMMITTEE REFERENCES 


Committee References, Introductory and Printed Numbers of-all Proposed Amendments Referred to 
Each Standing Committee. Proposed amendments introduced by Committees in the first 
instance and not referred back to the Committees, do not appear here. The proposed amendments 
introduced by Committees are shown on pages io 6 and 107 . 

' ; (Where Amendments have been made, the reprint numbers are shown.) 


1. BILL OF RIGHTS 


/nt. Pr. 

No. No. 

5. 5 

11 . 11 

16. 16 

17 . 37 

18 . 18 

24. 24 

27. 27 

43. 43 

45. 45 

55.55, 407 

76. 76 

97. 97 

101 . 101 

116.116, 408 

118. I 18 

132. 132 

169. 169 

173. 173 

177. 177 

188. 189 

197. 198 

203*. 204 

206. 207 

217. 21 s 

232 . 234 

233 . 235 


30.30 

32. 32 

41*. 41 

47 . 47 

48 . 48 

88 *. 88 

9.3. 93 

96. 96 

130. 130 

133. 133 

166. 166 

167. 167 

174. 174 

190 . 191 

191 . 192 

205. 206 


Int. Pr. 

No. No. 

238 . 240 

239 . 241 

248.251, 406 

261. 264 

267 . 270 

268 . 271 

278. 281 

282... 285 

292. 295 

296. 300 

305. 309 

321 .. 325 

322 . 326 

333. 337 

346. 350 

348. 352 

350.., . 354 

354 . 358 

■667 . 361 

358. 363 

368 . 373 

369 . 374 

387.394, 813 

390 . 397 

391 . 398 

423. 435 

a. LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION 

228.'_ 230 

230*. 232 

231. 233 

244. 246 

259. 262 

276. 279 

294. 297 

298. 302 

299*. 303 

317. 321 

335. 339 

355 . 359 

389. 396 

396. 403 

399. 411 

413. 425 


3. LEGISLATIVE POWERS 


Int. 

No. 

.440* 

441. 

442. 
453. 
461. 

483. 

484. 
494. 
500. 
512. 
529* 
597. 
599. 
604. 
609. 
617. 
633. 
636. 

643. 

644. 
661. 
677. 
681. 
685. 
687. 


417.. 

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464. , 
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559. 
587. 
600. 
6^26. 
638. 
653. 
667. 
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680. 
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Pr. 

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452 

453 

454 
465 
473 

. 495 
496 
506 
512 
524 
544 
612 
614 
619 
624 
633 
^ 649 
652 
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660 
677 
694 
701 
705 
707 


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.... 574 
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.... 642 
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690, 722 
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.... 704 
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3. 3 

28.:28, 537 

34*. 34 

36*. 36 

54. 54 

58. 58 

69 . 69 

70 . 70 

78*.78, 376, 746 


112 . 112 

139. 139 

184. 184 

192. 193 

209*. 210 

214.215, 738 

223*. 225 

245. 248 

250. 253 


275.278, 700 

289*.292, 410,747, 800 

290*.293, 362, 699, 841 

291*. ..294, 734, 775, 798, 819 

303*. 307 

315.319, 377, 735, 748 

324..... 328 

326*. 330 

379. 386 


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Committee References 


Int. 
No. 
380. , 
417* 
451. 
486. 
492. 


3. 

Pr. 
No. 

. 387 

. 429 

. *f . 463 

.:. 498 

. 504 

493*.505, 733 

547 . 562 

548 ./ 563 

550.565, 732 

556. 571 


4*.4, 188, 713, 729 

35. 35 

38. 38 

42. 42, 742 

51*.51, 821 

74*. 74 

91...91, 742 

105*.105, 745 

113. 113 

127.127, 742 

135. 135 

140.... 140 

165.- 165 


LEGISLATIVE POWERS — Continued 
Int. 

No. 

567. 


49. 

50. 

73. 

74. 

75. 
80, 
81. 
82. 
83. 

85. 

86 . 

87. 

109. 

no. 

111 . 

121 . 

125. 

150. 

156. 

157. 
172. 
179. 
182, 
186. 


I. 

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7, 

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14, 

15. 
20 . 
21 . 
22 . 
26. 
39. 
44. 
.56. 


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580. 

581 

584. 

589. 

601. 


4. SUFFRAGE 


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50 

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74 

75 
80 
81 
82 
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87 

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271. 


287. 

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372, 

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222 . 

223. 

242. 

246. 

293. 

300. 

304. 

330. 

332. 

360" 

364. 

366. 

385" 

386. 

404. 

415. 

418. 

419. 
4.34. 
472. 


6. JUDICIARY 


59, 

60, 
61. 
62, 

63, 

64, 

65, 
66 
72, 
95. 

104. 

106, 

107, 

114, 


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616. . 

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Pr. 

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632 
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644 
676 
683 
689 

, 861 
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509 

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601 

611 

667 

668 
670 
679 
695 


686*.706, 717, 776 


510 

517 

528 

529 
555 
567 
570 
572 

597 

598 
608 
620 
625 
634 
639 
643 
651 
653 
661 
663 
684 
692 
727 


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123 

124 
137 
141 

147 

148 

149 

151 

152 
1.53 
155 
160 


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173 


6 . JUDICIARY — Continued 


Int. 

Pr. 

Int. 

Pr. 

No. 

No. 

No. 

No. 

163. 

. 163 

336... 


164. 


347... 

. 351 

170. 


349... 

. 353 

175. 


352.. . 

. 356 

183. 


359... 


185. 


365... 


189. 


367... 

.. 372 

198. 


377... 


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. 209 

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. 216 

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7. FINANCE 

6 . 

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13. 

. 13 

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19 . 

. 19 

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8 . CITIES 

68 . 

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411... 

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187 . 

. 187 

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254 . 

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. 366 

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. 629 

373 . 

. 380 

625.., 

. 641 

374. 

. 381 

1 650... 

. 666, 698 


Int. 

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No. 

491. 

. 503 

499. 

. 511 

502. 

. 514 

503. 

. 515 

514. 

... 526 

515. 

.. 527 

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. 530 

522. 

. 534 

527. 

. 542 

536.. . . 

. 551 

541. 

. 556 

542. 

. 557 

544. 

. 559 

558. 

... 573 

560.; . . 

. 575 

561. 

. 576 

562. 

.. 577 

563. 

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564. 

. 579 

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585. 

. 600 

588. 

. 603 

590. 

. 605 

591. 


592. 

. 607 

595. 

. 610 

598. 

... 613 

607. 

. 622 

608. 

.623, 685 

611. 

. 626 

621. 

. 637 

622. 

. 638 

656. 

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. 680 

682. 

. 702 

690. 

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695... 

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470*. 

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477. 

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662.678, 796 

665. 681 

669 . 686 

670 . 687 

671 . 688 

674. 691 

676. 693 

689. 709 

712*.781, 823, 830, 851 


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Committee References 


Int. Pr. 

No, No. 

159.159, 222 

345. 349 

363*.368, 760 


31*.31, 782, 826, 837 


98, 

161, 

162, 

204, 

249 


.98, 715 

. 161 

. 162 

. 205 

.252, 718 


9. CANALS 

Int. Pr. 

No. No. 

510. 522 

519. 531 


10. PUBLIC UTILITIES 

356. 360 

426. 438 

430..-. 442 

478 . 490 

479 .491, 811 

482.. 494 


Int. Pr. 

No. No. 

575*.590, 817 

578. 593 


. 581 

. 656 

. 656' 

. 708 

706.767, 824, 832, 856 


566. 

639. 

640. 
688 , 


11. COUNTY, TOWN AND VILLAGE GOVERNMENT 


12 ... . 


210 

57. 

. 57 

272. 

108. 

. 108 

288. 

115. 

. 115 

444. 

178. 

..‘. 178 

449. 

202 . 

. 203 

462. 


12. COUNTY, 

12 *. 


1 227. 

57. 

. 57 

' 319. 

89. 

. 89 

325. 

146. 

. 146 

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218. 



235. 

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436. 

243. 

. 245 

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269*. 

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507. 

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143. 

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180. 

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. 211 

. 275 

. 291 

. 456 

. 461 

462. 474, 726 


523, 

524. 
606. 
634, 
678. 


13. PRISONS 


14. CORPORATIONS 


229 

435. 

323 

460. 

329 

594. 

385 

691. 

448 1 

, 538. 

768 ’ 

565* 

519 

627. 


341 

395.*l 


15. BANKING AND INSURANCE 

474. 486 

16. MILITARY AFFAIRS 


504. 

,648, 


538 

539 
621 
J50 
695 


447 

472 

609 

711 


553 

580 

643 


516 

664 


23. 23 

131*... 131, 725, 766, 790', 860 

134. 134 

181. 1-81 

193*,.194, 791 

194*.195, 765 

195 . 196 

196 . 197 


397. 

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530.. 



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401. 

. 413 

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535*. 

.550, 

764 

440. 


532... 


.547, 763 

659. 


67-5 

529. 

. 544 

533. . 


. 548 







17. 

EDUCATION 




67. 

. 67 

471.. 



525. 


540 

102 . 

. 102 

490.. 


. 502 

537. 


552 

103. 


506.. 


. 518 

666 . 


682 

403. 


513.. 


. 525 







18. 

CHARITIES 




90. 

. 90 1 

1 344.. 


. 348 1 

1 593. 


60S 

327. 

, .. .. 331 

371*. 



647. 


663 

328.. 

. 332 








19. INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS 


203. 

270. 

376. 

392. 

393. , 
394.. 
405*, 
406. . 


204 

273 

383 

399 

400 

401 

417 

418 


407*.419, 864 

408. 420 

422. 434 

545. 560 

554. 569 

582. 597 

602. 617 

603. 618 


•Taken out of committee. 
















































































































































Committee References 


175 


20 . CONSERVATION 


Int. 

No. 

10 . 

25, 

37, 

71. 

84, 

128. 

129, 

154, 

207, 


Pr. 

No. 

Int. > Pr. 

No. No. 

219. 220 

Int. Pr. 

No. No. 

480 499 


295. 9.99 

.54.3 5.5.9 


312... 316 

546. 561 


370. . 37.5 

549. 564 

. 84 

375... 382 

569. 684 

.128, 247 

.. 154 

433. 445 " 

438. 450 

475. 487 

570.. 585 

571. 586 

631. 647 


279. 

. 282 

21. 

1 439. 

. INDIAN RELATIONS 

1 /. . 


- 


22. 

FUTURE AMENDMENTS 


.. . __ 

33. 

. 33 

145* 

. 145 

395.. 

. 402 

52. 

. 52 

213. 

.. 214 

412. 

. 424 

94. 

. 94 

234. 

. 236 

5.39. 


144. 

. 144 

257. 

. 260 

703. 

. (-) 


28. CIVIL SERVICE 


29.. 

53* 

77*. 


138 ^ 
.142*, 
237* 
258.. 


46.. 

92., 
120 ., 
126., 
201 .. 
264* 


29 

53 

77 


136*.136, 736 


138 

142 

239 

261 


46 

92 

120 

126 

202 

267 


263* 
265.. 
281* 
284* 
297. . 
351* 
427*, 
508*, 


266 

'268 

284 

287 

301 

•355 

439 

520 


SO. TAXATION 

283. 286 

318. 322 

424.436, 750 

429. 441 

450. 462 

496. 508 


528* 

614* 

641* 

642* 

657* 

658*, 

683.. 

723. 


576, 

612. 

619. 

620. 


543 

630 

657 

658 

673 

674 
703 
840 


591 

627 

635 

6 S 6 


679*...696, 756, 806, 812, 834 


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176 


List of Delegates 


OFFICERS AND DELEGATES OF THE 

CONVENTION 

OFFICERS 

President, ELIHU ROOT, of New York City. 

Vice-President, JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, of Ithaca, N. Y. 

Second Vice-President, MORGAN J. O’BRIEN, of New York City. 

Secretary, WILLIAM D. CUNNINGHAM, of Ellenville, N. Y. 

Assistant Secretaries: FRED W. HAMMOND, of Syracuse, N. Y. 

E. W. MOSES, OF Dalton, N. Y. 

WILLIAM K. MANSFIELD, of Waterford, N. Y. 

ALMETH W. HOFF, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

DELEGATES . 

Names, Home and Albany’ Addresses, District Represented and Seat Number Respectively. 
Names of Republicans in Roman letters. 

Names of Democrats in italic. 


Dist. 

or 

at 

large 

NAME 

Home address 

Albany address 

Seat 

No. 

4 

Adams, Floj^d J. 

88 Ross St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hotel Wellington. 

167 

40 

Aiken, E. Clarence. 

Auburn, N. Y. 

19 South Hawk St. 

113 

11 



Hotel Ten Eyck. 

23 

40 

Allen, Francis C. 


7.5 T.ancaster St. 

140 

29 

Allen, Victor M. 


Elks Club, Troy, N. Y. 

139 

33 

Angell, Edward M. 

Glens Falls, N. Y. 

57 Lancaster St. 

118 

27 

Austin, H. Le Roy. 

76 New St., Catskill, N. Y. 

238 State St. 

56 

13 


27 Pine St., N. Y. City. 

39 Dove St. 

164 

6 

Bannister, William P. 

109 Cambridge PI., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hotel Wellington. 

142 

28 

Barnes, William, Jr. 

61 State St, Albany, N. Y. 

Town of Guilderland. 

10 

24 

Barrett, Henry R. 

White Plains, N. Y. 

Albany Club. 

68 

25 

Banmes, Caleb H. 

Newburgh, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

101 

8 

Bayes, William R. 

1.5.51 F.ast lOt.h St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

261 State St. 

135 

36 

Beach, Samuel H. 

122 W. Dominick St., Rome, N. Y. 

Albany Club. 

50 

17 

Bell, Gordon Knox. 

22 Exchange PL, N. Y. City. 

1 Elk St. 

162 

19 

Bernstein,tJ. Sidney . 

1980 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Citv. .'. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

81 

\t L. 

Berri, VV illiam. 

46.5 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

3 

42 

Betts, Charles H. 

T,vons, N. Y. 

7,5 T.anca.ster St. .... 

71 

23 

Blauvelt, George .4. 

Monsev, N. Y. 

2.59 State St. 

87 

37 

Bockes, George L. 

Oneonta, N. Y. 

Hotel Wellington. 

62 

At L. 

Brackett, Edgar T. 

Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 


108 

At L. 

Brenner, Jacob. 

252 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

261 State St . 

103 

32 

Bunco, George H. 

Herkimer, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

97 

20 

Burkan, Nathan . 

25 E. 99th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

156 

4 

Buxbaum, Isidor. 

266 Van Buren St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

261 State St. 

40 

5 

Byrne, Edward J . 

28 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hotel Hampton .... 

53 

At L. 

Clearwater, Alphonso T.... 

Kineston, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

16 

4b 

Clinton, George, Sr. 

1082 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. 

243 State St . 

19 

3b 

Cobb, Dorr Raymond. 

109 College PL, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Hotel Ter* Eyck. 

84 

1 

Coles,lFranklin A. 

Glen Cove, N. Y.. . 

1.5 T.ancaster St. 

38 

At L. 

Cullinan, Patrick W. 

2 E. Bridge St., Oswego, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

11 

46 

Curran, Richard H. 

• 107 Hobart St., Rochester, N. Y. 

23 South Hawk St. . 

33 

5 

Dahm, James H . 

462 55th St.. Brooklvn. N. Y. 

2.3 South Hawk St. . . 

76 

5 

Daly, Michael J . 

312 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y.. . 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

165 

30 

Dennis, Otis A. 

Whitehall, N. Y. 

Hotel Stanwix. 

93 

39 

Deyo, Israel T. 

Binerhamton. N. Y. 

2^^ Rmif.h TTawlv St. 

5 

46 

Dick, Homer E. A.. 

814 Wilder Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 

149 T.ancaster St 

151 

21 

Donnelly, James F... . 

1432 Glover St., Bronx, N. Y. City. 

217 State St .... 

161 

21 

Donovan, Peter . 

406 E. 144th St., Bronx, N. Y. City. 

21 T.ancnater St .... 

166 

16 

Dooling, John T . 

179 E. 80th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Hampton. 

160 

8 

Doughty, Edgar M. 

131 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N, Y.•. ... 

261 State St. 

1 

51 

Dow, Charles M. 

.Jamestown, N. Y. 

ISO W^ashington Ave 

91 

13 

Drummond, Michael . 

312 W. 106th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

123 

31 

Dunlap, W. Barlow. 

Amsterdam, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck 

72 

36 

Dunmore, Watson T. 

Utica, N.Y. 

27 South Hawk St 

116 

7 

Dykman, William N . 

177 Montaaue St., Brooklvn, N. Y. 

.5 Englewood PI .... 

27 

40 

Eggleston, Joseph E. 

Cortland, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Evek.. . 

57 

18 

Eisner, Mark . 

243 W. 98th St., N. Y. City. 

10 Chestnut Sf. 

127 

49 

Endres, Mat. .. . . 

296 Strauss St., Buffalo, N. Y_ 

Keeler’s Hotel 

1 in 

9 

Eppig, Theodore C . 

28 IJnden St., Brooklyn, N. Y. . . . 

Hotel Ten Evek 

54 

39 

Fancher, Samuel H. 

83 North St., Walton, N. Y. 

The Hampton. 

89 

48 

Fobes, Alan C. 

P. 0. Box 72, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Hotel 3'en Eyck 

X5 

7 

Fogarty, Michael . 

119 Russell St., Brooklvn, N. Y. 

Hotel Kenmore 

oO 

1 21 

14 

Foley, James A . 

66 Broadway, N. Y. City. 

Hot6l Ten Eyck 

4fi 

35 

Ford, I-ewis H. 

Clayton,'N. Y. 

3 Ijancaster St 

112 

47 

Franchot, Edward E. 

Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

1 Elk St 

14 

2 

Frank, Philip . 

8 Fisk Ave., Winfield, L. I. 

Hotel Hampton 

14 : 

1 53 

37 

Gladding, Albert F. 

Norwich, N. Y . 

140 State St 

loo 

58 

39 

Green, George E . 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

88 Willett St 

uo 

92 

44 

Greff, Clarence H. 

Warsaw, N. Y . 

47 Dove St 

1 30 

22 

Griffin, Anthony J . 

891 Cauldwell Ave., Bronx, N. Y. City. . . 

11 South Hawk St 

lOU 

1 24 

22 

Haffen, Louis F . 

308 E. 162d St., N. Y. City. 

136 State St 

1 57 

24 

Hale, Ledyard P. 

Canton. St. Lawrence county. N. Y . 

19 South Hawk St. 

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List of Delegates 


177 


Delegates — (Continued) 


Dist. 

or 

at 

large 

NAME 

Home address 

Albany address 

Seat 

No. 

29 

Heaton. Willis E.;. 

Hoosick Falls N Y 

70 Second St Trov N Y 

122 

9 

lieyman. Hairy . 

321 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, N. Y. . 

1 y/ Ov lyk/lJ Uk OUtf XlA/jr| • X • 

TCppIpr*!^ T-Tnt.pl 

115 

28 

Hinmaii, Harold J. 

357 Madison Ave., Albany, N. Y. 


6 

11 

Harawitz, Abraham . 

110 Forsythe St., N. Y. Citv. . . . 

TTnfpl T'pn TTl^rplr 

9 

42 

Johnson, John H. 

Penn Yan, N. Y. 

TTnfpl TTomptnn 

37 

45 

Jones, Frank M. 


4Q T'pn TTrnppV Rf 

31 

47 

Kirby, Thomas A. 

Albion, N. Y. 

TTnfpl ftf.pnwiv 

146 

14 

Kirk, Hiram M . 

136 E. 49th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Plyck 

75 

31 

Landreth, Olin H. 

Schenectady, N. Y. 


144 

8 

Latson, Almet R. 


.^9 -Tn.y Rf. 

30 

30 

Law, Robert R. 



150 

20 

Leary, Timothy A . 


TTnfpl TTfl.mpt.nn 

125 

44 

Leggett, John C. 

Cuba, N Y. 

TTnfpl Tpn T’.yplr 

18 

23 

Leitner, George A . 


Hotel Ten Hyck 

154 

37 

Lennox, Frank R. 

Chittenango, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten F.yck 

104 

48 

Lincoln, Leroy A. 


23 Ronfh TTfl.wlf Rf 

133 

10 

Linde, Joseph. 


TTnfpl TiVpllin^fnn 

100 

47 

Lindsay, James P. 






N. Y.."'.. 

3 Pine St. 

94 

At L. 

Low, Seth. 

30 E 64th St, N. Y. City. 

491 State St 

96 

29 

McKean, Andrew P. 



155 

1 

McKinney, William M. 

Northport, N. Y. 

Hotel Antwerp. 

132 

3 

McLean, Andrew . 


Hotel Ten F.vc.k 

83 

41 

Mandeville, Hubert C. 


2.3 South Hawk St. . 

109 

9 



Hotel Ten F.yc.k 

147 

At L. 

Marshall, T.onia. 

47 E "72d St., N. Y. City. 

.50.3 State St ... 

42 

22 

Martin, Francis .. 

2150 TTniversity PI., N. Y. Citv. 

217 State St . 

120 

36 

Martin, Louis M. 

Clinton, N. Y.. 

620 Myrtle Ave. 

36 

10 



1 T.odge St 

65 

28 



Cohoes, N. Y . 

105 

34 

Meigs, Ferris J. 


Slingerlands, N. Y. 

148 

32 



184 State St . 

63 

15 



Hotel Ten Eyck. 

51 

12 


223 E 17th St., N. Y.'City. 

10 Chestnut St. 

77 

17 

Nicoll, Courtlandt. 

61 Broadway, N. Y. City. 

62 Willett St. 

95 

14 

Nicollf D€l(iTic€'y . 

23 E 39th St , N. Y. City. 

31,5 State St. 

22 

50 

.Tamps Tj .. 

9*^9 Ri^TT^npr T^l PiifFalnj KT. V . . . . 

27 T.ancaster St . . 

73 

41 

Nye Bertrand W^. 

Watkins, N. Y. 

23 South Hawk St. 

129 

12 

j Afnrqn.n JT .. . 

Equitable Bldg., 120 Broadway, N. Y. City 

.5 Englewood PI . 

44 

At L. 

.Jnhn TiOrd. 

37 Church St., Buffalo, N, Y. 

4 Elk St. 

35 

49 

OV’n^pi.or ^hnm.fLf< V . 

63 Kingston PI., Buffalo, N. Y. 

23 South Hawk St. 

111 

18 

Olcott, William. ^I. K... 

58 W. 84th St., N. Y". City. 

Albany Club. 

12 

30 

^Villinm S.. 

Sehiiylerville, N. Y”. 

Hotel Hampton. 

159 

33 

Owen, Harry H...*. 

Port Henry, N. Y. 

57 Lancaster St . 

117 

41 

1 Park'^r . - 

113 Front St., Owego, N. Y. 

23 South Hawk St. 

137 

42 

Parmontpr JoHn. 

Geneva. N. Y. 

University Club. 

60 

At L. 

1 Parsnns TTprHprt. . 

52 William St, N. Y. City. 

4 Elk St.. 

136 

i 

! Ppllptrpaii T^obsrt S. 

Patchogue, N. Y.'. 

140 State St. 

143 

43 

T^ViilliriS .Tprsp S . 

Hornell, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

17 

26 

! PHilliris Samiipl K.. 

101 Union St, Beacon, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

102 

20 

1-^fittpT Af citIc TP.. 

417 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

86 

26 

Oniorcr T,pmiipl Pj. 

Austerlitz. N. Y.. 

Hotel Hampton. 

8 

6 

Pppvps Alfrpd G. 

148 St John’s PL, Brooklyn, N. Y..... 

52 Jay St. 

168 

45 

"RiiaVi .... 

pnpTlPsf.pr M V . 

Univer.sitv Chib. 

138 

23 

JT.imPYtP T tfl.TYiA^. »T T ^ 

Ngw PrightoHi N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

26 

At L. 

T?Arlolrili .1 .... . . 

739 Powers Bldg., Rochester, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

24 

At l! 

TP.liHil' ... 

998 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. 

135 Washington Ave. 


25 

T?r\a<%V» ... 

456 N. Main St., Liberty, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

107 

2 

T^tinr\ fZ£*nTn0 ./ .. 

236 Lincoln St., Flushing, L. I. 

HoteLTen Eyck. 

55 

26 

r^loir+r\Ti . . . 

Carmel, N Y.•. 

140 State St. 

134 

50 

ivyu.cr, ... 

Qo rarlck'Tca T-TqtTXT II ...... .. 

633 Marine Bank Bldg., Buffalo,. 

23 South Hawk St. 

90 

10 


914 Herkimer St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1 Lodge St. 

29 

16 

1 ..... 

30 Broad St„ N. Y. City'.. 

Assembly Chamber. 

158 

18 

1 Qrk A/Torfin ....... . 

51 Chambers St., N.’Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

13 

49 

O/t li AM L'i«# . . 

352 William St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Hotel iHampton. 

61 

At L. 

OCflOOilfluli K^flUf . .. 

CVt.^V.w\>>n . . 

Tthsi^f\ M Y. 

Fort Orange Club. 

43 

48 

Crkrkv.rk R . . . 

849 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

4 Elk St. 

39 

27 

QKrkv.«AA Gikirortrn T^ ... 

15 Albany Ave., Kingston, N. Y. 

206 State St. 

52 

1 o 

Oiiarpci ocvt?i>Li .... 

C ikll/-• lT/«7/'»/T'rW ... 

14 Wall St., N. Y. City. 

5 Englewood PI. 

88 

19 

L/-kri »V»/-t •*! A ./ 

636 W 158th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

80 

21 


.30 E 130th St., N. Y. City. 

237 Delaware Ave. 

145 

11 

AUrPfl K . 

25 Oliver St., N. Y. Citv. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

47 



162 Clinton St., Watertown, N. Y. 

University Club. 

106 

oo 

38 

C2rv^?fV» T?0%f T^ . . 

600 Kirk Block, Syracuse, N. Y. 

7 Chestnut St. 

64 

1 ^ 

7*7»/a-rr»/io 77* 

S2 Rt , M. Y. Gity. 

Hotel Hampton. 

48 

lO 
1 1 

toTflllflf 1 ni/7rtUo . . 

1 ^ rm /%lr\ A n1 ri J n 7? 

11 Pine St , N. Y’^. City. 

315 State St. 

45 

XO\ 

ioiOfTlCnJltlJi t V uivft . .... 

1 C! ^ Ini' f*0 T1 1.^ 

1987 Bailev Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

27 L.ancaster St. 

74 

ou 

a 

\ otaiiciarti riaiAK .. 

v.i va 1.' A/TcklOf* 

18 Fuller PI., Brooklyn, N. Y". 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

2 

u 

A f T 

otGinDriiiK, ivicici.. 

XJ*£kT\T*Tf T. 

32 Liberty St., N. Y. City. 

4 Elk St. 

20 

At Li. 

otimsoiii nt/Liiy . . 

/*lr 

165 E 6th St., Oswego, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

99 

oO 
1 7 

/*?^^1 1>Yr i'. 

1 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. 

4 Elk St. 

21 

1 / 


Plattsburgh N. Y. 

57 Lancaster St. 

119 

oO 

45 

116 riif?y, A aLiiL'iv . . 

Tuck, Andrew E .. 

203 Chamber of Commerce Building, 





T?r\AViAa+Pr MY . . 

39 Chestnut St. 

28 

1 n 

T 7 ^ Pm A 77k /i-ii.# 7/1/T/t 

139 W 130th St., N. Y. City. . 

10 Chestnut St. 

79 

ly 

07 

U7ly€Tf /iLoeri iJiufjy . 

Tr« yj rt*kLTTa T/^VkT\ AJ 

New Paltz, N. Y''. 

218 Lancaster St. 

128 


vauQcriyiit »7uuii .. 

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178 


List of Delegates 


Delegates — {Continved) 


Dist. 

or 

at 

large 

NAME 

Home address 

Albany address 

Seat 

No. 



Cobleskill, N. Y . 

.5S Morris St . 

41 




1 Elk St . 

4 

O 


.319 Clinton St., Brooklyn. N. Y . 

As.sembly Chamber. 

163 

1 

Tfnhp.rf. P . . . 

51 Chambers St., N. Y. City . 

Hotel Ten Eyck.. 

49 

lU 

7 

Wn.rd Frnni is P . 

436 Humboldt St., Brooklyn, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten F.yek . 

114 

34 

Waterman, Kobert S . 

36 Greene St., Ogdensburg, N. Y . 

9 Villa Rd., Menands, N. Y. 

131 

y 

Webber, Charles A . 

44 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten Eyck . 

126 

4 

Weber, Richard E . 

46 Sumner Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten Eyck . 

141 

2 

Wp.pA, John H’. 

Flushing L. I., N. Y . 

7.5 T.ancaster St . 

152 

51 

Weatwnnrl, TTerman .1. 

Fredonia, N. Y. 

23 South Hawk St. 

69 

43 

Wheeler, Monroe. 

Bath, N. Y . 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

82 

61 

Whipple, .TameaS. 

Salamanca, N. Y. 

132 State St . 

70 

46 

White, Charles J. 

Brockport, N. Y . 

49 Ten Rroeck St. 

34 

12 

While, John J . 

219 E. 12th St., N. Y. City. 

Hotel Ten Evek. 

78 

At L. 

Wickersham, George W. 

40 Wall St., N. Y. City. 

1 Elk St_'.. 

25 

25 

Wiggins, Russell..... 

Middletown, N. Y. 

Hotel Ten Eyck. 

7 

32 

Williams, Perry G. 

T.owville, N. Y. 

71 T.anca.ster St . . 

98 

24 

Winslow, Francis A. 

64 Alta Ave., Yonkers. N. Y . 

Alb.any Club. 

67 

44 

Wood, Frank S. 

Batavia, N. Y. 

27 South H.awk St. . . 

32 

At L 

Y oung, Charles H. 

31 Poplar PI., New Rochelle, N. Y. 

17 North Hawk St. 

15 

24 

Young, Frank L. 

32 Linden Ave., Ossining, N. Y. 

Alb.'iny Club. 

66 





Republicans. 116 

Democrats. 62 

Total number of delegates. 168 




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Constitutional Convention Committee List 


179 


LIST OF STANDING COMiVlITTEES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL 

CONVENTION 

COMMITTEE ROOMS AND CLERKS INDICATED 


1. BILL OF RIGHTS 

Messrs. Marshall, Chairman; Reeves, Olcott, 
Schurman, Vanderlyn, Bunce, Curran, O’Brien, 
M. J., Weed, Martin, F., O’Connor. 

Assembly Parlor. Clerk, Sydney B. Carragan. 

2. THE LEGISLATURE, ITS ORGANIZATION, 

ETC. 

Messrs. Brackett, Chairman; Saxe, M., Quigg, 
Lindsay, Aiken, Smith, R. B., Ford, Kirby, Linde, 
Buxbaum, Dennis, Tierney, ^ith, A. E., Ahearn, 
Haffen, Bernstein, Burkan. 

Room 329. Clerk, George D. Sterritt. 

3. LEGISLATIVE POWERS 

Messrs. Barnes, Chairman; Phillips, J. S., Schur 
man, Wadsworth, Brackett, Oleott, Tanner, Hin- 
man, Bockes, Wheeler, Tuck, Martin, L. M., Shee¬ 
han, Saxe, J. G., Foley, Smith, A. E., Aheam. 

Room 342. Clerk, W. J. Brennan. 

4. SUFFRAGE 

Messrs. Cullinan, Chairman: Stowell, Waterman, 
Nye, Owen, Eggleston, White, C. J., Mealy, 
Baumes, Weber, R. E., Williams, Saxe, J. G., 
Dooling, Newburger, Frank, Eisner, Kirk. 

Room 237. 

5. GOVERNOR AND OTHER STATE OFFICERS, 
ETC. 

Messrs. Tanner, Chairman; Rhees, Smith, E N., 
Stimson, Cullinan, Hale, Franchot, Bockes, Nicoll, 
C., Pelletreau, Angell, Bayes, Blauvelt, I^kman, 
Baldwin, Martin, F., Donnelly. 

Room 332. Clerk, Walter Arndt. 

6 . JUDICIARY 

Messrs. Wickersham, Chairman; Brackett, 
Marshall, Gladding, Stimson, Clearwater, Roden- 
beck, Dunmore, Steinbrink, Young, C. H., Sears, 
Cobb, Nicoll, D., Stanchfield, Sheehan, Dykman, 
Wagner. 

Assembly Parlor. Clerk, A. Perry Osborn. 

7. ON THE STATE FINANCES, REVENUES 
AND EXPENDITURES 

Messrs. Stimson, Chairman; Hinman, Low, Pel¬ 
letreau, Parsons, Lincoln, Lennox, Van Ness, 
Austin, Beach, Bannister, Dick, Wagner, Potter, 
Stanchfield, Nicoll, D., Slevin. 

Room 332. Clerk, Paul S. Andrews. 

8 . CITIES 

Messrs. Low, Chairman; O’Brian, J. L., Berri, 
Fobes, Smith, E. N., Latson, Green, Wiggins, 
Franchot, Allen, V. M., Sanders, Nicoll, C., Foley, 
Smith, T. F., Baldwin, Weed, Shipman. 

Rooms 341-343. Clerk, Frederick W. Myers. 


9. CANALS 

Messrs. Clinton, Chairman; Cullinan, Landreth, 
Tuck, Lindsay, Wiggins, Smith, R. B., Green, 
Fogarty, Griffin, O’Connor. 

Room 235. Clerk, William F. Schottin. 


10. PUBLIC UTILITIES 

Messrs. Hale, Chairman; Olcott, Westwood, 
Brenner, Mandeville, Deyo, Reeves, Nye, Sanders, 
Fancher, Kirby, Mathewson, McLean, Potter, 
Blauvelt, Foley, Dooling. 

Room 344. Clerk, Homer M. Wallace. 


11 . COUNTIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, THEIR 
ORGANIZATION, GOVERNMENT, ETC. 

Messrs. O’Brian, J. L., Chairman; Sharpe, Coles, 
Young, F. L., Quigg, Parmenter, Vanderlyn, Jolin- 
son, Heaton, Betts, Lincoln, Martin, L. M., Slevin, 
Donnelly, Webber, C. A., Schoonhut, Eppig. 

Room 226. Clerk, Washington Russell. 


12. COUNTY, TOWN AND VILLAGE OFFICERS 

Messrs. Mereness, Chairman; Tuck, Ryder, 
Rosch, Standart, Greff, Ford, Barrett, Linde, 
Parker, Buxbaum, Haffen, Daly, Wafer, Endres, 
Bernstein, White, J. J. 

Rooms 400, 401. Clerk, Herbert T. Reed. 


13. PRISONS, ETC., AND THE PREVENTION 
AND PUNISHMENT OF CRIME 

Messrs. Clearwater, Chairman; Ostrander, Mc¬ 
Kinney, Owen, Bell, Winslow, Adams, Drummond, 
Leitner, Daly, Harawitz. 

Room 236. Clerk, Cornelius Shufelt. 


14. CORPORATIONS 

Messrs. Brenner, Chairman; Fancher, McKean, 
Wood, Doughty, Gladding, Bunce, Adams, Rosch, 
Jones, Williams, Law, Frank, Kirk, Mann, Dono¬ 
van, Heyman. 

Room 227. Clerk, W. Paul Eddy. 


15. BANKING AND INSURANCE 
Messrs. Fobes, Chairman; Beach, Phillips, .J., 
Wheeler, Leggett, Van Ness, McKean, Richards, 
Mulry, Ryan, Harawitz. 

Room 227. Clerk, W. Paul Eddy. 

16. MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS 

Messrs. Latson, Chairman; Westwood, Dennis, 
Parker, McLean, Griffin, Byrne. 

Room 235. Clerk, William F. Schottin. 





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17. EDUCATION 

Messrs. Schurman, Chairman; Clearwater, Van- 
derlyn, Sargent, Phillips, S. K., Mandeville, 
Ryder, Mealy, Lennox, Law, Baumes, McKinney, 
Shipman, Potter, Ward, White, J. J., Donovan. 
Room 329. Clerk, George D. Sterritt. 

18. CHARITIES 

Messrs. Wadsworth, Chairman; Stowell, Water¬ 
man, Parmenter, Johnson, Wiggins, Doughty, 
Wood, Sargent, Bell, Allen, F. C., Mulry, Leitner, 
Drummond, Smith, T. F., Newburger, Eisner. 
Rooms 400-401. Clerk, Herbert T. Reed. 

19. INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS AND RELATIONS 

Messrs. Parsons, Chairman; Low, Curran, Berri, 
Parmenter, Franchot, Mandeville, Eggleston, 
Nicoll, C., Jones, Leggett, Weber, R. E., O’Connor, 
Smith, A. E., Fogarty, Dahm, Unger. 

Rooms 423-424. Clerk, Benjamin M. Day. 

20. CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES 

Messrs. Dow, Chairman; Smith, E. N., Clinton, 
Marshall, Whipple, Rhees, Landreth, Meigs, Aus¬ 
tin, Bannister, Angell, Dunlap, Baldwin, O’Brien, 
M. J., Leary, Blauvelt, Saxe, J. G. 

Room 234. Clerk, E. H. Hall. 

21. RELATIONS TO THE INDIANS 

Messrs. Lindsay, Chairman; Whipple, Meigs, 
Smith, R. B., Shipman, Schoonhut, Endres. 

Room 233. Clerk, James-Allen. 

22. FUTURE AMENDMENTS AND REVISIONS 
OF THE CONSTITUTION 
Messrs. Hinman, Chairman; Young, F. L., 
Sharpe, Heaton, White, C. J., Martin, F., Ward. 
Room 341. 

23. REVISION AND ENGROSSMENT 

Messrs. Rodenbeck, Chairman; Quigg, Ostrander, 
Betts, Bayes, Newburger, Leary. 

Court of Claims Court Room. 


24. PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS 

Messrs. Young, C. H., Chairman; Brenner, 
Bunce, Cobb, Dunlap, Allen, F. C., Tierney, Rich¬ 
ards, Burkan, Heyman, Byrne. 

Room 229. Clerk, W. S. Coffey. 

25. PRINTING 

Messrs. Berri, Chairman; Betts, Nixon, Mere¬ 
ness, Beach, McLean, Dahm. 

Room 233. Clerk, James Allen. 

26. CONTINGENT EXPENSES 

Messrs. Phillips, S. K., Chairman; Fobes, Sears, 
Sharpe, Bell, Mulry, Dykman. 

Room 236. Clerk, Cornelius Shufelt. 

27. RULES 

Messrs. O’Brian, J. L., Chairman; Hale, Barnes, 
Parsons, Nicoll, D., Sheehan, Wagner. 

The President’s Room. 

28. CIVIL SERVICE 

Messrs. Rhees, Chairman; Phillips, S. K., Wick- 
ersham, Dow, Dunmore, Deyo, Nixon, Dick, Coles, 
McKean, Aiken, Winslow, Weed, Richards, Unger, 
Eisner, Mann. 

Room 344. Clerk, Homer M. Wallace. 

29. LIBRARY AND INFORMATION 

Messrs. Phillips, J. S., Chairman, Wickersham, 
Rodenbeck, Wood, O’Brien, M. J., Stanchfield, 
Leitner. 

Room 220. Clerk, W. S. Coffey. 

30. TAXATION 

Messrs. Saxe, M., Chairman; Ostrander, Stein- 
brink, Greff, Nixon, McKinney, Leggett, Standart, 
Ryder, Barrett, Mathewson, Allen, V. M., Unger, 
Ryan, Eppig, Webber, C. A., Wafer. 

Offices of State Tax Dept. 

Clerk, Achille H. Bloch. 


SPECIAL COMMITTEES 


NOMINATIONS FOR MINOR OFFICES 

Messrs. J. S. Phillips, Chairman; Tanner, Hin¬ 
man, Meigs, Tuck, Doughty and A. E. Smith. 


DRAFTING ADDRESS TO PEOPLE 

Messrs. Wickersham, Chairman; Clearwater, 
Schurman, Low, Hale, M. J. O’Brien and A. E. 
Smith, (President Root ex officio). 


TIME AND MANNER OF SUBMITTNG THE 
REVISED CONSTITUTION 

Messrs. Parsons, Chairman; Brenner, F. L. 
Young, Cobb and D. Nicoll, (President Root ex 
officio). 









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STENOGRAPHIC RECORD INDEX BY DELEGATES 


SHOWING NAME OF EACH DELEGATE, SUBJECT AND PAGE NUMBER IN PRINTED 

STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 

(For delegates’ votes, see Table of Votes, in this Index) 


Mr. Adams. Page 

Proposed amendments, introduction.107, 

252, 314, 333, 357 

Mr. Ahearn. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.182, 

185, 376 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3060 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 4371 

Mr. Aiken. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of....61, 62 

Legislature, single house, etc., minority re¬ 
port .341, 345, 348-350 

Legislature, two houses, min. rep., motion.. 426 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate.. 1366-1367 

1461-1462 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1840-1843 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2857 

Occupational diseases, Int. 714, debate. 3892-3893 
Food products, inspection, Int. 131, debate..4105 
Bill of Rights, Int. 720, debate.4'zl7 

Mr. V. M. Allen. 

Excuse for, requesting.3332 

Mr. Angell. 

Error in record, correcting. 68 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 285, 

290, 306, 381 

Conservation Dept., Int. 70^, minority rept.. 1018 

1021-1026 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate. .1374, 1422- 
1429, 1455, 1491-1495, 1499, 1502, 1472- 

1473, 1511-1514 

Conservation (Int. 708), discussion. 1392 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3121—3123 

Excuse for Mr. Tierney, requesting.3278 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, vote, changing. .3531 
Bill of Rights, Int. 720, debate.4072 

Mr. Austin. 

Excuse for Mr. Hinman, requesting. 53 

Excuse for Mr. Barnes, requesting. 54 

Amendments, proposed, titles, contents. 59 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 74, 75,109, 

134, 217, 297, 298, 361 

Excuse for Mr. Hinman, requesting. 141 

Amendment Int. 128, amending.... 212 

Committee reference, Int. 129, discussion.292, 293 

Amendment Int. 78, amending. 295 

Amendment, Int. 34, motion to lay aside.. 439 

General orders, laying aside. 453 

Amendment, Int. No. 509, amending. 468 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion. .489-490 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion-511-517 

Amendment, Int. 34, moving. 706 

Agricultural leases (Int. 34), discussion.... 728 
Committee of the Whole chairman, declining 750 
Emergency message, Int. 78, debate. .759-763, 816, 

824 

Quorum, lack of, discussion. 807 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate. 829 


Page 

Amendments, files for 3rd rdg. and G. 0. cal.851- 

852 

Taxation, Int. 679, debate.. 1119, 1125, 1059, 1060 

1165, 1166, 1171, 1179 
Finance, Int. 705, state bonds, amending... 1131 

-j^mendment, Int. 363, moving.1037 

Canal fund commissioners, Int. 363, debate.. 

1061-1063 

Conservation Dept., Int. 708, minority rept.. 1018 

1028-1029 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate.. 1284^1285 

1309 

Conservation Dept. Int. 708) . . . .1347, 1348-1352, 
1387, 1389, 1390, 1392, 1394, 1405, 1413, 
1417, 1484, 1491, 1508-1511, 1513-1514, 

1518, 1521 

Memorial, civil service . 1566 

State budget (Int. 709), debate.1697-1699, 

' 1706-1708 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate...1768 

1780-1782, 1801 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1855-1860 

Home Rule (Int. 712) quorum.1910 

Home rule (Int. 712), Com. of Whole rep.. 1948 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 712) prog. 1998 
Committing of Whole report (Int. 712), re¬ 
committing .2079-2080 

Emergency message (Int. 78), final pasage.2240 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 

3rd reading .2278-2279, 2281 

Extra compen. (Int. 289), vote, explaining.2322 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2377-2378 

2394, 2396-2397, 2439-2440, 2446-2447 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate..2526-2527, 2545- 
2548, 2560-2661, 2563-2564, 2703, 2731-2732, 

2735, 2741 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 712) prog. 1948 
Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate. ..2892-2890, 2899 
Amendment (Int. 713), amending, debate. .2955 

Canals (Int. 710), debate.2977-2978, 2985 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate.3081 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3103-3104, 3109 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate. ...3144, 
3174-3175, 3189-3190, 3835, 3839 
State depts., reorg., Int. 716, debate. . .3434-3436 

Debts, cities, counties, Int. 713, debate on 

3d reading ..3638-3639, 3645 

Conservation, Int. 708, debate on 3d read¬ 
ing .3550-3551 

Taxation, Int. 679, vote, explaining.3570 

Legislative Powers, Int. 696, debate.3749 

Governor, term, salary, Int. 702, debate...3778 
Food products, measuring, Int. 131, debate..3799 
Debts, cities, counties, etc. (Int. 713), debate 
on third reading.. ..3835-3836, 3839 

Food products, inspection, Int. 131, debate.4102- 

4103, 4107 

Food products, inspection, Int. 131, vote, ex¬ 
plaining .4108 

Final drafe of Constitution, explaining vote. 4372 
Address to the People, vote, explaining.... 4440 

















































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Mr. Baldwin. Page 

Committee reports, contents, discussion. .77, 78 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 133, 171, 182, 

224, 267, 305, 334, 335 
Committee reference (Int. 197), changing. ... 188 

Amendment Int. 248, amending. 302 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.574-582 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion.753-755 

•Governor, term, Int. 702, minority report... 868 
Registration,^absent electors (Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372 ), discussion. 923 

Party nominations, Int. 699, discussion.... 1039 
•Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate.. 1387-1388 

1391 

State Budget (Int. 709) debate.1704 

Amendment (Int. 716) minority report.1735 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate. 1829 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate ..2514-2516, 2520- 
2521, 2530-2531, 2559-2560 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate. .2833-2834, 2841- 


2843, 2869-2871, 2879 
Literacy test (Int. 686), vote, explaining... 3044 
State depts., reorg., Int.‘ 716, debate.3291 


Governor, term, salary, Int. 702, debate. 3783-3784 
Food products, measuring, Int. 131, debate. .3793 

4105 

State depts., reorg., Int. 716, vote explaining. 3942 
Reapportionment, Int. 722, debate.... 3994, 4000 

4030-4031 

Bill of Rights, Int. 720, debate. .4077, 4195, 4210 

4246, 4249-4250 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720) amendment offer¬ 


ing . 4252 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4260 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), final passage.4287 


Mr. Bannister. 

Proposed amendments, introduction... .261, 314, 

374, 437-438 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1318 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate.. 1396, 1415 

Mr. Barnes. 

Adjourn to April 26, motion. 36 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .268, 317, 380, 

404 

Amendment Int. 315, amending. 295 

Committee reports, by maj. resolution. .302, 303 

Amendment Int. 289, amending. 319 

Committee reference, Int. 223, changing. 319 

Committee ref., Int. No. 326, 417, changing. 413 
Amendment, Int. No. 34, committee report.. 415 

Committee report, procedure upon. 416 

Amendments, Int. Nos. 289, 214, 78, com¬ 
mittee report .417-418 

Water, drinking, for Convention, com. report, 

discussion ..423-424 

Amendments, introd. of, notice of objection.. 437 
Committee reference, Int. No. 303, changing. 4.54 

Amendments, introd. by committees.470-471 

Agricultural leases, Iht. 34, discussion.. 528-530, 

708-710 

Reapportionment, discussion.633-634, 636 

Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explaining. 650 

Amendment, Int. 573, amending.682, 857 

Amendment, Int. 290, report by committee.. 683 

Amendment, Int. 315, amending.698, 814 

Amendments, Int. Nos. 275, 550, 493, report- 


Page 

Proposed amendment, introduction by com..703- 

705, 863-865 

Amendment, Int. 291, reporting. 703 

Amendment, Int. 624, referring to Com. of 

Whole, discussion . 783 

Emergency message, abolish, Int.. 78, discus¬ 
sion .'.... 816 

Laws complete in themselves, Int. 275, discus¬ 
sion . 826 

Impeachment by legislature, conveneing for, 

Int. 291, debate.829, 831-833, 842, 844 

Committee statement, Int. 573, printing.. 857-858 
j^mendment, Int. 315, com. statement re.. . . 872 
Amendment, Int. 315, statement re com. vote. 873 
Legislative Powers Com., progress, state¬ 
ment re . 894 

Registration, absent electors (Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372), discussion.911-912 

Amendment, Int. 696, amending. 976 

Amending, Int. 699, moving.981, 997, 1036 

Correction of record of August 2d.*....1131 

Party nominations, Int. 699, debate. . 1037-1041 

1042, 1043 

'Caxation, Int. 679, discussion.1170, 1178 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, vote explain¬ 
ing .1229 

Privileges (Int. 701) amending.1362, 1919 

Amendment (Int. 701) special order.1435 

State Budget (Int. 709) debate.1688 

Registration (Int. 711) debate. .. 1731-1732, 1746 
Amendments (Int. 701, 679) exchange places. 1735 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1802-1810, 

1812, 1827, 1884, 1838, 1842, 1846, 1848, 
2094-2095, 2116-2120, 2152 
Privileges (Int. 701) amending, request to 

make Special Order. 1919 

Privilege (Int. 701), time of submitting. ... 1948 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 701), laid 

over . 2121-2122 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .2285 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3 rd reading, 

debate .2350, 2351, 2353-2354 

State Budget (Int. 709), final pasage. .2305-2306 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate_2529-2530, 2702, 

2734, 2743-2745, 2749-2750, 2757 
Lunacy Commission (Int. 371), debate.2809, 2814 

Amendment (Int. 696), amending.2922 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ), debate. . .2930- 

29.32, 2947, 2949, 2950 

Canals (Int. 710), debate.2980 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate. .3073-3074, 

3078, 3081, 3084-3086 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3099, 3111-3112 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3139 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate_3139, 

3162, 3165-3167, 3187, 3191 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3311, 3411- 

3414 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3d rdg, 3614, 1618 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading .3687, 3693, 3697-3698, 3700 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate. .3743-3745, 
3748-3750, 3752, 3754, 3756, 3758 

Claims, private (Int 550), recommitting_ 3762 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree . 3709 

Nomination of A. E. Smith for sheriff, state¬ 
ment . 3769 

























































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183 


Page 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3782, 

3786, 3788-3789 

Food products, measur’g (Int. 131), debate, 3791- 

3792, 4105-41Q7 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate.. .3894- 

3896 

Amendment (Int. 700), recommitting. 3808 

Home rule (Int. 712), vote explaining. 3834 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3876-3877, 3889-3890 

Future amendm’ts (Int. 715), final passage, 3934 

Reapportionm’t (Int. 722), debate.4018-4020 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing . 3942 

Mfg. in dwellings (Int. 407), final passage, 

debate.4124, 4126^128 

Reapportionm’t (Int. 722), vote, explaining.4189 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate_4193, 4248, 

4265-4266 

Adjournment Sept 4. 4229 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4284 

Living wage (Int. 193) discharge com..4295-4296 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 4372, 

4403 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate.4419-4420, 4427 

Address to the People, vote, explaining. 4440 


Mr. Barrett. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 108, 183, 337 

Amendment (Int. 74), amending. 574 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate..1774-1778 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2036-2037 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2894-2895 

Amendment (Int. 713), amending, debate... 2954 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate .3019-3020 


County governm’t (Int. 721), debate.. .3722-3724 
County governm’t (Int. 721), final passage. .3960- 

3961 


Mr. Bayes. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.90,133 

181, 282, 334, 357, 358, 374 

Indictments by grand juries, data, resol. 482 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1318 

Amendment (Int. 716) minority report.1736 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate..2195-2196 
Committee report (Int. 720), motion to dis¬ 
agree .2239 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate.2543-2547 

State debts, reorg. (Int. 716), debate. . .342.5-3426 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd rdg.358I, 3588 
Future amendm’ts (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading .3697 

Judiciary (Int. 718), vote, explaining.3817 

Debts, cities (Int. 713), vote, explanation. .3933 

Correction, page 3933'of Record.3987 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4086-4088 

Bldg, heights (Int. 724), consideration, take 
up .4267-4268 


Mr. Beach. 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate. . 1274-1278 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate.. 1440-1444 

State Budget (Int. 709) debate.1715 

Literacy test (Int. 686), vote, explaining. . . 3045 
Committee of 'Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3060 I 


Mr. Bell. Page 

Water, drinking, convention, use. 54 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.. 171, 401 

Amendment, Int. No. 627, reference. 4/5 

Amendment, Int. No. 627, reference. 479 

Registration (Int. 711) debate.1751 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371), debate. .2809-2810 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2915- 

2917, 2925 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3475 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), final passage, 3941 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate...^.4069 

Excuse for Mr. C. Nicoll.. 4303 


Mr. Bernstein. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. . .154, 172, 

216, 261 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion.... 490 
Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation. 


debate.620--622 

State Budget (Int. 709) debate.1683-1684 


Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining. .2153-2154 
Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2187, 

2193-2195 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2349, 2350 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2786-2787 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate. .2999-3000, 

3683 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate on 3rd 

reading. 3683 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate on 3rd 

reading.3695-3696, 3700 

County governm’t (Int. 721), debate.3720 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate, 3404, 3429- 

3430, 3489-3490, 3493 

Future'amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3rd 

reading.3695-3696, 3700 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3996, 4002 

4005, 4010, 4019 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4373- 

4374 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate. 4418 


Mr. Berri. 

Printing contract, printing bd. originate.. 30, 31 

Documents, etc., printed, distribution. 131 

Error, Document 4, page 24, printing. 141 

Record, journal, time of delivery. 150 

Printing, No. of copies, delivery, etc.186-188 

Journals, etc., printing, number, etc....'.... 199 
Printing, journal, etc., number, resol.. .. .202-207 
Proposed amendments, introduction of. .224, 448 

Amendments, printed copies, arrival. 249 

Prayer, convention ses., clergymen inviting. 324 
Excuse for Mr. Betts and himself, requesting. 364 
Water, drinking, for Convention, com. report, 

discussion . 421 

Magna Charta celebration proceedings, print¬ 
ing, resol. 568 

Clerks, excusing, motion. 678 

Excuse requesting . 790 

Capital punishment, hearing, printing, dis¬ 
cussion . 793 

Printing Com., progress, statement re. 901 

Convention record, addit’l copies, printing.. 1032 
Printing, documents, records, amendments, 
extra copies. 1251 


































































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Page 

Absence of Mr. Roscli and Mr. Wiggins, ex¬ 
plaining on roll call. 1915 

Absence of Mr. Steinbrink, explaining. 1916 

Printing, speech of Mr. Root, August 19. ...2575 
Printing, Record No. 38, additional copies. . .2610 

Printing Root short ballot speech. 3760 

Constitution, final draft. Print. Com. report. 4227 
Printing, Oom. report, additional copies 

amendments, etc.4404-4405 

Printing document 52, 10,000 copies... .4405-4406 

Mr. Betts. 

Printing Bd., commun., resolution.24, 25 

Proposed amendments, introduction.65,226, 

262, 307 

Newspaper reporters, facilities, committee 

rooms, etc.313, 314 

Capital punishment, abolishing, hearing re, 

printing .792-793 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider, ex¬ 
plaining vote. 1243 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1812-1813, 

1815-1816, 1843 
2096-2101 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), amending... 

2278, 2284-2285 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3219, 3249 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3390-3397 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading .3692 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote, explain¬ 
ing . 3943 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate... 4004, 4007 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4076,4078 

408(^4084,4194 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 
passage, debate . 4126 


Mr. Blauvelt. 

Proposed amendments, introduction....74, 182, 

438, 459 

Adjournment over Friday. 95 

Sinking fund bonds, data, discussion.... 137, 138 

Error, page 91, journal. 208 

Excuse, requesting.1013 

Education, state function, Int. 698, debate.. 

1070-1074, 1090, 1091 

Highway bonds, Int. 31, amending. 1246 

Conservation (Int. 708), amendment, discus¬ 
sion .1347, 1350 

Registration, absent electors (Int. 711), re¬ 
quest to make Special Order, discussion.. 1358 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) amending. ... 1421 

1422 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) roads, debate. 1455 

1472, 1524-1525, 1526 


Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1761 

Amendment (Int. 716) minority report.1763 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2179, 


2186, 2219-2220 

Education (Int. 698), final passage, debate.2252 
Judiciary (Int. 718) debate. .2584-2586, 2780- 

2781 

Amendment (Int. 31) amending.2651 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.3012 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) de¬ 
bate . ..3017-3018, 3021, 3023-3024, 3027, 3030 
Highwavs (Int. 31), debate....3091-3104, 3110, 

3112-3118, 3131, 3133 


Page 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3404-3405 

3416, 3460, 3464, 3468 
3470, 3484, 3495 

Appropriations (Int. 719), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing .3686—3687 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. . .3790 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), de¬ 
bate .3793-3794,3803 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4212,4219 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4401- 

4402 


Mr. Bockes. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.. 122, 123 
Education, state function, Int. 698, debate.. 

1074-1076 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708) debate.1346 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate. 1418 

Amendment (Int. 716) minority report.1763 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1843-1845, 1850 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.25^9 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2649-2651 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 697), 3rd 

reading.3090 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3238 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3471 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3943 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 4374 


' Mr. Brackett. 

Excuse for Mr. Allen, requesting. 4 

Rules, adoption of, discussion. 22 

Vice-Presidents of Conv., election, nomination. 23 

Seats, choosing . 26, 27 

Rules, amendments, discussion. 41-44 

Water, drinking. Convention, use.53, 54 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.... 59. 60, 
110, 296, 404, 415, 436-437, 797, 803, 3119 
Proposed amendm’ts, 1st, 2d reading, manner. 60 

Committee reports, contents of.76-78 

Sessions Convention, time of, discussion..79, 80 

Convention White Book. 82 

Stenographers to Convention, discussion.... 85-88 

Bill drafting dept, for Convention.88, 89 

Adjournment over Friday....95, 96 

Water, drinking for Convention, inquiry.... 158 
Proposed amendments, introduction, time 

limit, discussion .161, 162 

Committees, power to originate proposed 

amendments .165, 166 

Excuse for Mr. Allen, requesting. 218 

Records, Journals, etc., printing, distribution, 

discussion .227, 228 

Printing, amendments, additional copies, etc. 232 

Committee reference, Int. 154. 293 

Committee reference, single com. at a time.. 294 

Prayer, clergymen, inviting.295, 290 

Rochester engineers, mem., short ballot..321, 322 
Legislature, composition, etc., com. resolu¬ 
tion .340-346, 348, 351-352 

Committee reference, suggesting.;.. 359 

Water, drinking, for convention.364-365 

Tax com. proposed amend., introd., discus¬ 
sion .387, 390^394 

Legislature, organiz. com. (Int. 41, 230, 276, 

299), reporting.387-388 

Committee reports, procedure upon, discussion 416 

Water, drinking, for Convention, com. report, 
discussion .419-421,424 
































































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• Page 

Leg. two houses, com. resol., calling up. . 425-429 
Trask, memorial, dedication, invitation to 

delegates. 436 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion.. 483- 

486, 491-492, 496-503 

Legislative Organization Com., amendment, 

introduction of .450-452 

Library Com. material, data, indexing. 465 

Trask Memorial exercises, announcement. .505-506 

Int. 34 Committee of the Whole report. 530 

Keapportionment, (Int. 673), Legislative 

Organization Com. report. 530 

Keapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . , . 536 

Keapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.598-610, 612, 613 

Amendment (Int. 673), adverse report, 

adopt. 661-662 

Amendment, Int. 680, recommitting. 694 

Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing . 700 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34,.Com. 

of Whole report.728-729 

Amendment, Int. 88, reporting. 734 

Amendment, Int. 624, discussion. 739 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion. 757 

Emergency message, Int. 78, discussion. .764-765, 

817, 822 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697) majority re¬ 
port .797-799 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), minority re¬ 
port and discussion.799-801 

Laws complete in themselves, Int. 275, discus¬ 
sion..'.. 827 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate.833-836, 842, 844 

Committees, opinion of, reporting, disposition. 851 
Amendments, Int. 15, 95, 402, reference, dis¬ 
cussion .856-857 

Convention sessions, changing, discussion.... 862 
Amendment, Int. 702, motion to recommit.867-868 
Amendment, Int. 702, minority report, discus¬ 
sion . 869 

Legislative Organization Com., progress, state¬ 
ment re. 894 

Official oath (Int. 88) discussion, procedure. 934- 

935 

Int. 706, reference, discussion.964-966 

Governor’s term, J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., letter, 

reference .973-974 

Communications re short ballot, introd. of. 1036 

1067, 1068 

Party nominations, Int. 699, discussion.1043 

Voters, literacy test, Int. 686, amending. ... 1069 
Com. of Whole chairman cannot designate 

substitute. 1076 

Education, state function, Int. 698, debate.. 

1091-1092 

Leave to sit again, objection, procedure. ;. .1099 

.Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1127 

Amendment, Int. 697, moving.1154 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, debate.1190 

1194-1197, 1213-1214, 1216, 1221-1222, 1227 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider. 1245 

Privilege of floor for C. B. McLaughlin and 

Justice Ingraham. 1246 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1269, 
1286, 1297, 1301-1302, 1303 


Page 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. 1351, 1457- 

1459, 1503, 1519-1520 

Int. 706, special order.1358 

Locomotive engineers, etc., petition re short 

ballot. 1566 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate. 1589, 1591, 1600- 
1601, 1605, 1610, 1620, 1624-1625, 1627- 
1633, 1661-1622, 1683, 1710-1711, 1724 

State Bpdget (Int. 709), amending.1673 

Short ballot (Int. 716), consideration, time 

of ._..2081 

Taxation (Int. 679), amending, vote on.2131-2132 

Public Serv. Com, (Int. 706), debate.2211, 

2220, 2227 

Int. 679, Kevision Com., discharging.2200 

Communication from E. K. Brown, short 

ballot .2234-2236, 2237, 2238 

Legislatirs’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .2279 

State Budget (Int. 709), vote explaining_2320 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2341, 2342, 2345 

Amendment (Int. 706), recommit, statement.2356 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2390-2391 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate_2378-2379, 2384, 

2446, 2448-2453, 2467-2468, 2478-2482, 2483, 
2486, 2508, 2518-2520, 2534, 2536, 2756-2758, 
2769-2774, 2779-2780, 2785-2786 
Communication, criticising Convention.2381-2382 
Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .2948, 

2950 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate_2995, 

2998, 3010 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3042-3043 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate..3080, 3090 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3092, 3119 

Amendment (Int. 716), special order, chang¬ 
ing.3061-3062, 3066-3067 

Keapportionment (Int. 722), Com. report.. . .3119 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3145 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3233, 3251 
3290, 3301-3320, 3346, 3350 
3356, 3380, 3384, 3394-3396 
3414-3415, 3438-3439, 3443 
3457, 3465 

Adjourning Saturday afternoon.3282 

Short ballot (Int. 716), vote, time of.3283 

Excuse for, Mr. Allen, requesting.3332 

Call of the House, notice of.3333-3334 

Memorial, official referees.3334-3335 

Amendment (Int. 711) amending, debate... .3501 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d rdg...3550 
Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.... 3562-3563 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading.3596 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing .3625-3626 

Absent electors (Int. 7II), final passage. ..3661- 

3662, 3670-3671 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3739 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. . .3789 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3794 

Civil Service (Int. 59), discharge Com.3807 

Correction, pages 3729-3730 of Kecord.3872 

Keapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3904-3906 
3998-3999, 4004, 4006, 4020 
Bill of Kights (Int. 720), debate. .4073, 4195, 4197 
Keapportionment (Int. 722), vote, explaining.4190 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 4374- 
’ ; .i . 4375 


























































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Page 

Excuse from voting .4375, 4404 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate.4418, 4423, 4427 

Address to the People, vote, explaining. 4440 


Mr. Brenner. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.90,171, 

261, 267, 290, 375 

Corporations Com. report, Int. 122, 143, 180, 

341, 395, 504, 516, 623, 664, submitting.... 978 
Committee of Whole report, Int. 698, pro¬ 
gress . 1099 

Committee of Whole report, Int. 698.1130 

Committee of Whole report, Int. 679.1131 

Excuse for, requesting.2659 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. .3660'- 

3661, 3666, 3670 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate... .4077, 4202r- 

4203 4217 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate. 4195 


Mr. Bunce. 

Excuse for Mr. Williams, requesting. 80 

Proposed amendments, introduction.155,172 

184, 201, 202, 269, 284, 285, 298 

Error, page 201 record, correcting. 219 

Amendments, copies, obtaining. 249 

Prayer, clergymen, inviting.295, 296 

Herkimer county supervisors, memorial, high¬ 
way bonds . 321 

Prayer, convention sessions, clergymen, in¬ 
viting .323, 324 

Messenger, appointing . 465 

Clerks, tally clerk, appointing. 744 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion. 753 

Recess over Saturday, July 24, motion.... 876-879 

Journal, on desks, statement..... 892 

Indians, tribal courts, Int. 707, discussion. .1220 

1221, 1223 

Excuse, requesting. 1016 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.... 3431- 
3432, 3441, 3455, 3478, 3487 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d rdg. .3553 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3943 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), debate on 3d 

reading .4100 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4375 


Mr. Burkan. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 154 

Records, etc., copy to Congressional Library. . 231 
Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation. 

debate.585-588 

Registration, absent electors (Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372), discussion.920-921 

Education, state function (Int. 698), dis¬ 
cussion . 946 

Memorial, civil service.1566 

Registration (Int. 711 f, debate.1728-1730 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1836-1840 

State Budget (Int. 709), final pasage. .2306-2307 
Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2401-2403, 2404, 

2409-2412, 2416, 2432-2435, 2438 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), amended.2408 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2878-2879 


Page 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ), dis¬ 
agree .3040—3042 

'Reapportionment (Int. 722), minority rept.3283 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3348-3353 

3472-3473, 3479 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), vote, changing.3532 
Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. .. .3561-3562 
Home rule (Int. 712), vote, explaining.3826-3827 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720) debate. .4202-4203, 4217 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4375-4376 


Mr. Buxbaum. 

Proposed amendments, printed copies of, 

discussion . 81 

Stenographers to convention, resolution... 84, 85 

Proposed amendments, introduction.90, 93 

107, 215, 282, 399 

Error, page 59 record, supposed. 127 

Governor, invitation to address convention.. 168 

• Committee minutes, distribution.178, 179 

Resolution of thanks to Speaker Sweet and 

Secretary of State. 179 

Subjects, consideration by conv., restricting. 179 
Water, drinking, for Convention, com. report, 

discussion . 423 

Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explain.... 651 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), statement... 804 

Correction, page 881 of Record. 893 

Registration, absent electors (Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372) discussion.908, 915, 922 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1752, 1753 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .2288 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate_2399-2400, 2403- 

2404, 2430, 2437 

Printing speech of Mr. Root.2487 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2544-2545, 

2556, 2569, 2571-2572, 2783 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate. 

2907, 2948 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate. 

2994, 3011 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate.3077, 

3085, 3087, 3089 

Excuse, requesting .3090 

Excuse for, requesting.3158 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 7163, debate.3439-3440 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate, 

. 3777-3778, 3785, 3787 

Judiciary (Int. 718), vote explaining.3817 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate.•..3875 

Reapportionment (In. 722), debate.3993, 4005 

4023-4025’ 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), amending, dis¬ 
cussion .4121 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720) vote explaining. . . .4294 
Correction, page 4231 of Record.4349 

Mr. Byrne. 

Sessions, convention, time of. 79 

Water, drinking, for Convention, com report, 

discussion .422-423 

Reapportionment, IST. Y. City’s representa¬ 
tion .594-596 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate . . .716-717 

Official oath (Int. 88) discussion_931-932, 935 

i . Taxation, Int. 679, discussion_957, 1158, 1161 

































































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Page 


Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion .1086 

Leg! lators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.... 1193 

1194, 1206 

Spanish War veterans, memorials. 1247 


Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1443-1444 

1506 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1652-1653, 1678 
Home Buie (Int. 712), debate... 1977, 2058, 2077 

Privilege (Int. 701) vote, explaining.2154 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2392 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2746-2747, 2764, 

2783—2784 2787 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate..3076-3077 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate. ...3168 

3170-3171 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3291, 3399 

Excuse, requesting .3533 

Home rule (Int. 712), vote, explanation.3841 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate....3893 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. ..3996, 4013 

4016 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate....4088-4089, 

4208-4200 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate .4121-4123,4131 

Civil service, veterans (Int. 29), making 

special order .4171 

Civil service (Int. 29), Rules Com. action..4231 
Living wage (Int. 193), debate. .4271, 4273, 4277 

4285 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4376 


Mr. Clearwater. 

Memorial, State Bar Association. 59 

Proposed amendments, introduction.59, 155, 

217,380 

Error, page 59, record. 127 

Committees, meetings, posting, notice... .212, 213 
Magna Charta celebration, speaker, discussion 236 
State Bar Association, memorial, printing.. 312 

John Clinton Gray, death, announcement- 533 

Prisons Com., progress, statement re. 896 

Amendment, Int. 465, reporting amended- 969 

Amendment, Int. 269, reporting amended. .976-977 

Amendment, Int. 565, reporting. 977 

Education, state control, Int. 698, debate.991—993, 

995-995 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1828-1835 

2113-2116 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2177-2180 
Education (Int. 698), final pasage, debate.2254- 

2255 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2458-2461, 2483,2485 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2559, 2563-2565, 

2580, 2679-2683, 2747-2749, 2755 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate. 

2932-2934 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 


agree . 3046 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3d reading.3521 

Taxation (Int. 679), vote explaining.3571 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading..3579 
Excuse for Mr. J. S. Phillips, requesting. . .3606 


Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate.3882-3883, 3889 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate.... 3899 

-3900 

Certificates of election, convention delegates.3989 


Page 

Bill of Rights (Int.. 720), debate.4085-4086, 

4196, 4199, 4210-4211, 4241-4243, 4249 
Taxation (Int. 679), submit separately to 
voters.4171-4172 

Mr. Clinton. 

Excuse for, requesting. 54 

Com, reference, suggesting (Int. 330). 272 

Committee reference, Int. No. 10. 294 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. . .362, 1152 
Committee reference (Int. 546), suggesting.. 377 

_ 377, 402 

Committee reference (Int. 631), suggesting.. 
Committee reference (Int. Nos. 378, 172, 645, 

364, 370, 219, and 475). 449-450 

Committee reports, procedure.453-454 

Agricultural leases, (Int. 34), discussion.. 512, 

717-719 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . 561-564 

Convention sessions, discussion. 686 

IStenographers, certain, excuse. 749 

Extra compen., Int. 289, debate. 754 

Committee of the Whole report. 778 

Amendments, Int. 15, 95, 402, reference. 856 

Amendment, Int. 363, reporting amended... 895 

Canals Com., progress, statement re. 895 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion. 918-919 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discussion 942 
Education state control, Int. 698, debate.988-990 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1266, 
1267, 1280, 1284, 1285, 1287, 1304-1308 
Canals Com. report, Int. 710, submitg. 1150-1153 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1108-1109 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. . 1348, 1352 
1375-1380, 1381, 1394, 1411, 1467, 1497 

1507, 1523-1524 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), amending. .. 1419- 

1420 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1548, 1553-1554 

1755 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2171-2172 

Privilege (Int. 701) vote, statement.2234 

Amendment (Int. 575), reporting amended. .2239 
Impeachment (Int. 291), amending. ...2345-2346 
Judiciarv (Int. 718) debate.2443-2445, 2482-2483 
Canals (Int. 710) debate. .2956-2964, 2968-2969, 
2972-2974, 2978-2985, 2987 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate.3016 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3114-3119 

Canals (Int. 710), amending. ...3159-3160, 3504 

Roll call, absence....3277-3278 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate..3468 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing.3543, 3556 

Canals (Int. 710), laying aside.3680-3681 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. ..3786 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate 

3794, 3799 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3841-3844 

3848, 3851-3852 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), det)ate.4022 

Canal board (Int, 725), debate.4052 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4089-4090 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4209,4218 

Mr. Cobb. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.156,225, 

306, 337, 405,406 
























































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Page 

Court of claims, data, resolution. 180 

Amendment, Int. 159, amending..,. 200 

Amendment, Int. 77, amending. 313 

Amendment, Int. 650, amending. 449 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate . , .709-711 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion. 913 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1171, 1172 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.....1673 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1691 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1467-1469 

Memorial, re Spanish War Veterans.1435 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1937-1939 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706) debate.2224 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2390-2391, 2468-2472 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2516, 2606-2607, 

2610-2622, 2633-2635 

Excuse for Mr. Fobes, requesting.2654 

Canals (Int. 710), amendment offering. .2667-2969 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate. 

3010-3011 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate.3085 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3139, 

3145-3147 
3160-3161, 3185-3187, 3189 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3486 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3d reading.3516 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing. 3555 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage. .3845-3847,3851 

3853 

Canals (Int. 710), vote, explaining.3855 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4264 


Mr. Coles. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.... 106, 107, 
242, 282, 314, 333, 356, 373, 374 
Journal, calendar, documents, etc., additional 

copies . 178 

Committee reference, suggesting. 333 

Memorial: Genesee, Yearly Meeting of 

Friends.781-782 

Memorial, Society of Friends on capital pun¬ 
ishment, military service.961-962 

Excuse, requesting. 1013 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, debate.2347 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2408, 2420 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2615, 2623, 2624 

Excuse for Mr. Pelletreau, requesting.2657 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2760-2764, 

2766-2767, 2793-2704 
Correction, pages 2760 and 2798 of Record..2022 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3466 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing.3593-3594 

Judiciary (Int. 718) amendment offering....3598 
County government (Int. 721), debate.3724-3726 

3739-3740 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate...3785 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate 

3802-3803 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 


bate.3890 

County government (Int. 721), vote explain¬ 
ing.3063 

Reapportionm’t (Int. 722), debate.. .4023, 4027- 

4028 

Correction of the Record.4098 


Page 

Military Aff. Com. report printing as docu¬ 
ment ...4098 

Correction, page 3728 of Record.4159 

Bill of Right (Int. 720), debate.4212, 4216 

Mr. Cullinan. 

President of convention, second nomination... 7 

President’s clerk, nominating. 32 

Amendments, printed copies, distribution to 

rural press . 106 

Documents, papers, etc., distribution. 131 

State library, obtainihg books from. 150 

Cigarettes, inmates State institution, data, 

resolution .169-171 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 172, 382, 1248 
Stationery for committees, resolution... .272, 273 
Canals, surplus waters, etc., data, resol..279, 280 
Water, drinking, for convention... .365, 421-422 
Legislature, two houses, com, resol., discus.. 430 

Surplus waters of State, use, data, resol. 460 

Committee reference, Int. 678, changing. 729-730 

Extra compen., Int. 389, discussion. 754 

Dr. Mary E. Walker, privilege of addressing 

Convention . . 779 

Amendments (Int. Nos. 144, 353, 663), 

amending.794-795 

Amendments (Int. Nos. 42, 91, 127, 247, 

285), reporting amended.795-796 

Amendment (Int. 4), reporting.796-797 

Amendment (Int. 105), reporting amended.. 797 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), discussion.800-801 

Governor, term, Int. 703, discussion.866-868 

Amendment. Int. 686, reporting. 869 

Proposed amendments, introd. of, for com.869-870 

Suffrage Com., progress, statement re. 894 

Woman Suffrage, Int. 703, reference. 900 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion, recommitting.918, 968 

Official oath, Int. 88, debate. 931 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.951, 1118 

Int. 706, reference upon reporting.. .964, 965, 967 

Files, third reading and G. O. cal. 968 

Taxation, Int. 679, offering amendment.1128-1129 

Legislators’ salary, Int. No. 697, vote. 1230 

Suffrage Com. report, submitting, Int. 711.. 1248 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1267- 
1268, 1281-1282, 1285, 1293 
State Budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1597-1598, 1606 
1609, 1616-1619, 1623, 1629, 1632, 1642 

Amendment (Int. 703), disposition of.1668 

Amendment (Int. 716), minority reports.. . .1734 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1752 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1793-1794 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1813, 1822 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2174, 

2190-2192, 2209 

State budget (Int. 709), final passage. .2307-2305 
Amendment, Int. 51, reporting amended.... 2384 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate....2387-2391 

Excuse for, requesting.2653 

Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate.2891 

Literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2014 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2928-2930 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2971-2972, 2980 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.2987 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate .3027-3028 

Amendment (Int. 716), special order, chang¬ 
ing .3068-3069 

State depts., reorg (Int. 716) debate, 3255, 3456, 

3463 










































































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Page 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ...3666 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3798 
Mfg. in dwellings (Int. 407), debate, 3874-3875 
Canals (Int. 710), final passage, 3845, 3850-3851 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4072, 4077, 

4199, 4245, 4259-4260, 4262 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4377 
Final draft of Constitution, printing, state¬ 
ment .4405 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of,' 
debate.4416 


Mr. Curran. 

Proposed amendments, introduct., time limit, 

discussion .160, 161 

Committees, originate proposed amend... 163, 164 
Proposed amendments, suggestions for, resol. 242 

Proposed amendments, introduction.272,307, 

308, 318, 406-407 

Amendments, Int. Nos. 598, 599 and 600, cor¬ 
rections .461-462 

Memorial, State Federation of Labor, printing, 

resolution . 469 

Amendments, introd. by committees, dis¬ 
cussion . 470-471 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, debate.. 1199-1202 

1208-1210 

Statement re late Senator Pitts.1220 

Memorial re ^Spanish War Veterans.1435 

Excuse for, requesting.3038,3153,3159,4192 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate, 3483-3484 
Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate... 3902- 

. 3903 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4279-4281 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4402 

Mr. Dahm. 

Amendments, printed copies, distribution.. 106 

Proposed amendments, introduction.305, 357, 

385, 406-407 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1197-1198 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1561 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2094-2095, 

2101-2102 

Excuse of Mr. Unger, statement.3091 

Bill of rights (Int. 720), debate, 4074, 4077-4078, 

4194 

Amendment (Int. 720), motion to amend-4267 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), vote explaining-4295 

Memorial, Spanish War Veterans.3498 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d rdg., 3589, 3595 
Mfg. in dwellings (Int. 407), debate, 3888-3889 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing . 3944 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4377 


Mr. Dennis. 

Excuse for Mr. Sherrill, requesting. 309 

Mr. Deyo. 

Seats, convention chamber, choosing. 25 

Governor, committee to wait upon, resol... 32 

Governor, committee to invite, report. 36 

Adjournment over Friday . 96 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting. 142 

Proposed amendments, introduction.... 173, 185 

307, 338, 363 

Firemen, civil serv. pref., petitions. 371 


Page 

Memorial, Binghamton Engineering Society.. 371 
Appropriations for sectarian schools, peti¬ 
tion . 635 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.641-646 

Employees of Convention, certain, term.... 574 

Adjourning, motions re, discussion. 809 

Committee of the whole report, Int. 88, 679, 

698 . 958 

Education, state func., Int. 698, discuss. 1094-1097 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, amendment of¬ 
fering . 1216 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1123 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider.1234 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1416 

Registration (Int. 711), debate. . 1560, 1733, 1741- 

1743, 1752, 1753-1754 
State Budget (Int. 709), debate. 1690, 1692, 1711- 

1715 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate.1906 

Excuse, requesting .1998 

Amendment (Int. 387), amending.2198 

Revision Com. (Int. 679), discharging.2200 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2225-2227 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2513-2514, 2545 

2566-2568, 2571, 2598, 2612 

Judiciary (Int. 718) quorum, lack of.2673 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2740 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.2992, 

3005-3007 

Excuse of Mr. Unger, statement.3091 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3128-3130 

Congratulatory resolution .3281 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3384 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), amendm’t of¬ 
fering .3524 

Int. 290, statement re quorum.3645, 3653 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3d rdg. .. .3645 
Future amendm’ts (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading .3694, 3697 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate.3748 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3767 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716) vote explain¬ 
ing .3944-3945 

Certificates of election of delegates, resol., 

objection . 3990 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate.4016 

Bill^of Rights (Int. 720), debate, 4214, 4218, 4258 

Mr. Dick. 

Proposed amendments, printed copies, distrib. 105 

Error, page 17, record, correct. 131 

Correction, page 1421 of Record.1666 

Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining.2155 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading.2280 

Excuse, requesting .2490 

Excuse for, requesting.3203, 3281 

Conservation (Int. 708), vote explaining. .. .3810 

Mfg. in dwellings (Int. 407), final passage, 
debate .4124-4125, 4131 


Mr. Donnelly. 

Proposed amendments, intro, of....58, 402-403 
Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explaining. 652 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1007 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate.1937 

Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining.2156 
































































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Page 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2404-2406, 2432, 2435 

Highways (Int. 31), debate.3114 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.3149-3150 

3190 

Taxation (Int. 679), vote, statement.3578 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading.3587- 

35'88, 3592, 3594 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3d reading.3628 

Cities, judiciary (Int. 712, 718), vote.3841 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote, explain¬ 
ing .3945 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4256-4258 

Civil service, veterans (Int. 29), making spe¬ 
cial order .4267 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4277-4279 

Mr. Donovan. 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .217, 244, 458 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3047 

Mr. Dooling. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 148 

Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explain- . 

ing . , .652-653 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3488-3489 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d rdg.3556 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote, explain¬ 
ing . 3945 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), amending, dis¬ 
cussion .4120-4121 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate .4125 

Correction, page 3629 of Record.4159 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4199,4211 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4378 

Mr. Doughty. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 153 

Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining.2157 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3047 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.3149 

Excuse for Mr. Buxbaum, requesting.3158 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3170, 3184 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3432,3442 

3460-3461, 3471 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3d rdg.3622, 3627 
Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ..3670 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3d reading .3698,3700 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), debate.3756 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3790 
Judiciary (Int. 718), vote, explaining. .....3818 
Appropriations (Int. 719), final passage... .3928 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate.4033 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote, 

explaining .4133 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining cote..4378 


Mr. Dow. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.299, 340, 1018 
Committee reference, Int. Nos. 10, 25, 71, 121, 

120, 154, 207, 220. 295 

Conservation Com. report, submitting.1018 

Amendment, Int. 708, amending.1273 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1319-1331 

1332, 1333, 1334, 1421 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3d rdg..3547 


Mr. Drummond. Page 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4378 

Mr. Dunlap. 

Error in record, correcting. 69 


Proposed amendments, introduction.... 155, 261, 

262, 317 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708)debate.. 1367-1370 

1440, 1462, 1468, 1506 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2523-2524, 2773 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate_2881-2882, 2884 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3133-3124 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3404-3405 
Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ...3670 

County gov’t (Int. 721), debate.3736 

Amendments (Int. 708, 712, 718), vote, ex¬ 
planation .3862 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3890 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote, explain¬ 
ing .3946 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 
passage, debate .4120-4122 


Mr. Dunmore. 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .91, 92, 149 
172, 225, 269, 270, 306, 381, 449 
Constitutional amendments, submitted by 


legislature, data . 152 

Printing, records, documents, etc., number, 

distribution . 231 

Error, Int. No. 382, correcting. 332 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 
debate. 71T 


Amendment, Int. 573, movg, notice of. 1037, 1154 
Amendment, Int. 573, discussion defeiTing. . 1190 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discuss. ..1216, 1222 
Judiciary (Int. 718), minority report, debate. 1874 


Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2102-2104 

Taxation (Int. 679), amend, debate.2126 

Public Servive Com. (Int. 706), amend, 

debate.2192-2193 

Error, page 545 Journal.2000 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2371-2375 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2466-2467, 2484-2486 

Excuse, requesting .2489 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2725-2726 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2914 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2969-2971 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate. ....3139, 

3142-3144 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3163 

318^3185 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3467 


Judiciary (Int. 718), debate bn 3d reading.3595- 

3596, 3598 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ..3663- 

3664,3666,3671 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading . 3693 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage. .3849^3850, 3853 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3879-3880 

Appropriations (Int. 719), final passage. ...3926 

Correction, page 3964 of Record.3988 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate-4116, 4118-4119, 4128-4130 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining .4133 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), vote, changing.4191 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4141-4242 




























































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^ Page 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4274-4277 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), final passage.... 4289 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4379 

Mr. Dykman. 

Charles Andrews, ex-judge, congratulatory 


resolution, discussion. 288 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.582-585 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.... 1054-1055, 1061 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1700-1702 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1796 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2386 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2750, 2771 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate.2814 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2972 


State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. 3298-3300 

3336 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading.3582 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3775- 

3777 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate_3894 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4065-4066, 4071- 

4073, 4262-4263 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4379 
Mr. Eggleston 

Excuse for, Mt. Gladding, requesting.3154 

Excuse for, requesting .3278 

Mr. Eisner. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 121, 378, 379 
Magna Charta celebration, inviting President 

Wilson .259, 260 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3048 

Excuse, requesting . 3090-3091 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3293 

3398-3399, 3409-3411, 3423-3426 
Industrial Relations Com. program, consid¬ 
eration .3641 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3767 

Cities, judiciary (Int. 712, 718), vote.3841 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate.3898- 

3899 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4076, 4200 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4379 

Mr. Eppig. 

Presence, recording .3282 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.. 4380 


Page 

Excuse for, requesting..'.2654 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.. 3073, 3085 

Mr. Fogarty. 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 357 

Mr. Foley. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.120,215, 

305, 359, 376 

Amendment, Int. No. 98, amending. 475 

Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explain¬ 
ing .653-654 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion. 906 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1390-1391 

1407 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), reprinting 

with amendments.1430 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate.1893-1906, 

2071, 2075 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.2123 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2228-2230 
Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.... 

3009-3011 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) deba*te.. 3074, 3079 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate. .. .3166, 

3171-3172, 3188, 3193 
State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3378, 3405, 
3419-3420', 3472, 3478-3479 
County government (Int. 721), debate....3738, 

3741-3742 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 708), debate. .3784- 

3787 

Judiciary (Int. 718), vote, explanation. .. .3841 
Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate. . .3893- 

3894 

State enumeration, data, resolution. .3988-3989 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .4023, 4025- 

4027, 4032 * 

Committee of W^hole report (Int. 722), dis¬ 
agree .4034 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 725), 3rd 

reading.4090 

Committee of "Whole report (Jnt. 720), prog¬ 
ress .4090 

Adiournment Sept. 4.4228-4229 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4242-4244 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote, 

4380, 4403 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate .4414, 4420 

Committee to aid 1916 Legislature.4451 


Mr. Fancher. 

G. A. R. Convention, recognition of.471-472 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate . . ..714-715 

Excuse, requesting..1016 

Error, in his vote, correcting. .1033 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, vote, reconsider¬ 
ing, explanation .1237 

Excuse, requesting .2490 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3104, 3109, 3130 

Mr. Fobes. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of-244, 460 

Banking Com., progress, statement re. 896 

Banking Com. report, Int. 474, 580, 581, sub¬ 
mitting . 


Mr. Ford. 

Excuse for, requesting.2654 

Mr. Franchot. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.135,272, 

285, 385, 386, 407, 44S 

Amendment, Int. 686, amending..'. . . 482 

Amendment, Int. No. 68, amending.506-507 

Amendment, Int. 131, amending.531, 928 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . 557-561 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., discus¬ 
sion .580-581, 635 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion .937, 941, 942 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.951-952 

Education, state control, Int. 698, discussion. 98€ 


























































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Page 


Home rule, Int. 712, minority report.1250 

Correction, page 1250 of Record.1666 

Amendment (Int. 662), amending.1667 


Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.. 1910, 1919-1932, 
1938-1939, 1942, 1960, 1970, 1976, 1980, 1984 
1986-1987, 1995-1996, 2050, 2056-2057, 2061 

2063-2064, 2073-2074 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2558-2559, 2596, 

2700, 2715, 2740, 2742 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2826-2829, 

2843, 2871, 2875 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate 

2942-2944 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2973-2974 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3108 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3167-3169 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3614-3615 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading .3691, 3696, 3697 

Amendments (Int. 702, 131), special order, 

changing.3791 

Food products, measur’g (Int. 131), debate, 3791- 
3795, 3797 3803, 4103^4107 
Revision Com.^report (Int. 131), adopting..3864 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3910, 4005 
Food products, inspection (Int. 131), motion 
to reconsider .4115 

Mr. Frank. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.107,333, 

356, 357 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2789-2790, 2793 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading, 3586, 

3594 

Mr. Gladding. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.262 

Excuse for, requesting.3154, 3277 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate, 4077, 4193, 4218 

Mr. Green. 

Amendments, printing, add’l copies, dis’n... 214 
Proposed amendments, intro. .225, 327, 383,406 
Record, journal, etc., print’g, distrib’n. .230, 231 
Printing, amend’s, etc., number distrib’n .233, 234 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion. 1202-1203 

1222 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1557 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate...1713-1715 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate...2087-2891 

State budget (Int. 709), changing vote.2318 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3049-3050 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3088 

Absence on roll call, explaining.3158 

Future amendm’ts (Int. 715), debate. .3173-3174 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate, 3262-3268 

3284-3298 

Excuse for Mr. Gladding, requesting.3277 

Memorial, Spanish War Veterans.3281 

Statements in Record of Aug. 29, correcting. 3324 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), vote, explain¬ 
ing ,.3527 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3d 

reading.3688 

Conservation (Int. 708), vote, explanation.3862 
Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate. ...3902 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3946-3947 


Page 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4135 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.. 4402 
Address to the People, vote, explaining.4442 

Mr. Greff. 

Presence, recording .3277 

Mr. Griffin. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.91, 108, 

217, 224, 379 

Amendment No. 46, reference, error cor’g. .. 103 

Error in record, correcting.117, 118 

Penalties, fines, etc., societies receiving, data, 

first class cities. 260 

Taxation, Int. 679, debate.1005, 1011, 1068 

1172, 1179, 1180-1190 

Education, state function, Int. 698, debate, 
discussion ...1083, 1085-1088, 1094, 1104, 1107 

Spanish War veterans, memorials. 1247 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1272, 

1274 

Taxation (Int. 679), amendments to, print¬ 
ing, resolution.1314 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, 

debate.1510, 1522 

Taxation (Int. 679), limiting debate.1736 

Correction, page 1188 of Record.1756 

Taxation (Int. 679), debate.1756-1758, 

1763-1771 

Taxation (Int. 679), amending.1799-1800 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2174-2177 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), amend.2287 

State budget (Int. 709), final passage.2304, 2314 
Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2397-2398, 2407, 2436 

2439 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.... 2502-2506, 2521, 
2527-2528, 2532, 2534, 2751-2753 
Int. 706, Com. of Whole report, disagree. . 

3031-3032 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 


agree .3049-3050 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3075, 

3080, 3082-3083, 3085 

Future amendm’ts (Int. 715), debate.3192 

Excuse, requesting .3280, 3334 


Amendm’t (Int. 29), discharg’g Com., notice, 3717 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate, 3784, 

3786, 3788 

Civ. Serv. (Int. 59), discharge com....3806-3807 

Judiciary (Int. 718), vote explaining.3819 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3948 

Correction, pages 3806, 3807, 3948, of Record, 3987 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), amending_4119- 

4120 

Correction, page 4135 of Record.4166 

Civ. serv., veterans (Int. 29), making special 

order .4170 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), vote, explain’g, 4183 

Correction of Record....4349 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4381 
Address to the People, vote, explaining.4443 

Mr. Haffen. 

Attendance, of members, record. 117 

Proposed amendments, intro. 148, 172, 409-410, 459 

506, 507 

Amendment Int. 174, statement.. 190 

























































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Page 

Assembly district apportionments, compara¬ 
tive table . 251 

Legislature, composition, discussion. 350 

Error, pages 350 of Record, correcting. 36() 

Memorial, Bronx Co. registrar, taxation. .457-158 

Memorial, Bronx Board of Trade, introd. 468 

Communication from W. T. Rehni. 506 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate...2640 

Error Page 2595 of Record...2651 

Quorum, lack of, rule 01, interpret. .. .2672-2673 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3078 

Literacy test (Int. 686), vote, statement. ...3195 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate..3907, 3910- 
3911, 3994, 3998-3999, 4004, 4017-4018 
Occupational diseases (Int. 714), vote ex- 

j)laining .4142 

Attendance, throughout Convention, state¬ 
ment re.4357 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4381 
Address to the People, vote, explaining.4443 


Mr. Hale. 

Highways. $50,000,000 bds. apportion, resol. 137 

Stenographer, appointing, rules report. 324 

Committee report, by maj., rules report..324, 325 

Committee reference, certain amend. 325 

Proposed amendments, introd. of.404, 962 

Rules 32 and 50, amend, amendments, introd., 

procedure . 460 

Committee reports, procedure.470 

Rules, 32 and 50, amending, amendments, in¬ 
troduction, procedure . 469 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . 564—565 

Waterman, Wadsworth, excuse for, requesting 890 
Public Utilities Com., progress, statement re. 895 
Public Utilities Com. report, submitting, dis¬ 
cussion .962-963, 965-967 

Amendment, Int. 31, reporting.1036 

Int. 706, special order. 1357-1358 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1544 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1823-1828 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2142-2151, 
2165-2169, 2178, 2223, 22.32 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2174 

Amendment (Int. 706), recommitting. .2355-2.356 
Amendment (Int. 706) reporting amended... 2535 

Judiciarv (Int. 718) debate.2597-2.599, 

2606, 2619-2620, 2694-2696, 2698 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.2987- 

2989, .3007-3009, .3011 

Excuse for iMr. Eggleston, requesting.3278 

.Tudiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d rdg.3593 

Pub. Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate on 3d 

reading .3682—3684 

Public service (Int. 706), recommitting.4050 


Mr. Harawitz. ' ' >j 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 358 

.Tudiciary, Int. 718, debate.2419, 2430 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree .3059 

.Tudiciary (Int. 718), vote, explanation.3841 

Canal* Board (Int. 725), debate.4052 

Bill of Rights'(Int. 720), debate.4066, 4070, 

4072-407.3, 4075, 4077, 419.3, 
420.3-4205, 4207, 421.5-4216 
Clovernor’s salary (Int. 702), debate on 3d 
reading .^tOO 


Page 

Food products, inspection (Int. 131), motion 

to reconsider.4115 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4381 

Mr. Heaton. 

Proposed amendments, introduction ....284, 326 

Memorial re Spanish War Veterans.1434 

Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining.2158 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2794-2795 

Literacy test (Int. 686), explaining.3050 

Future amendments (Int. 715) delDate.3146 

Memorial, Rensselaer County Sportsmen’s 

Ass’n .3280 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), vote explain¬ 
ing .‘.3527 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3d reading .3696 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate .4123 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 
explaining .4135 

Mr. Heyman. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 243 


Mr. Hinman. 

Minor officers of conven., com. resol.23, 24 

Excuse for Mr. Barnes, requesting. 104 

Proposed amendments, introd. of..403, 740, 1668 
Amendment, Int. Nos. 573, 624, reporting... 735, 

739-740 

Emergency message, Int. 78, debate.766-767 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate. 841 

Telephone operator, appointing, etc. 856 

Future Amendments Com., progress, state¬ 
ment re. 900 

Woman Suffrage, Int. 703, reference. 900 

Pages, chief of, appointing.975-976 

State debts, Int. 705, discussion. . 1286-1287, 1291 

Memorial, civil service.1566 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate. . 1638-1646, 1694 

1709 


Registration (Int. 711), debate.1745-1746 

Amendment (Int. 145), reporting.1668 

Future Amendments Com. (Int. 715), report. 1668 

Home Rule (Int. 712). debate.204.5-20.52 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2084-2087 

Legislators’, salarv (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .”.2280-2282, 2283, 2289 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate . ^2343-2344 

Committee of Whole chairman, excuse.2798 

Lunacy Commission (In. 371) debate. .2802-2808, 

2813, 2816 

Future amendments (Tnt. 715) debate.3133- 

3141, 3144, 3176, 3184, 3186-3191, 3193-3194 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3476 

Appropriations (Int. 719), debate on 3d read¬ 
ing .3686-3687 

Future amendments (Tnt. 715), debate on 

3d reading.3698-.?699, 3700 

Committee of whole report (Int. 721, 696), 3d 

reading...3759 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .•.. . .3764-3767 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 721), prog¬ 
ress .3733 













































































194 


Stenographic Record, Index by Delegates 


Page 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 702, 131), 

3d reading .3804 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote..4381 

Mr. Jones. 

Excuse for, requesting.1862 

Mr. Johnson. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 362 

Excuse for, requesting .3372 

Mr. Kirby. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.92,111, 

123, 263, 286, 386 

County treasurers, fees, data. 152 

Attorney-general, special counsel, cost, data, 

resolution .373, 463 

Int. 706, minority report. 964 

Education, state function, Int. 098, debate. 1088 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1207-1208 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1816-1817 

2106-2108 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.. 2172-2174 
Judiciary (Int. 718) debate... .2572, 2611-2612, 
2633-2634, 2678-2670, 2681-2682, 2728 
Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. ...3564-3565 
Reference to, pages 3729-3730 of Record, by 

Mr. Brackett .3872 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.. 4382 

Mr. Kirk. 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 216 


Mr. Landreth. 

Documents, etc., convention, distribution... 130 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting.248 

Proposed amendments, intro, of.404, 459-460 

Spanish War veterans, memorials.1246 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1383-1386 

1473-1477 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), amend, de¬ 
bate .2230-2231 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2941-2942 
Public Service Com, (Int. 706) debate..2995-2997 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate..3460-3463 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4245, 4248-4250 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3851 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3949 

Mr. Latson. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.120, 133, 

315, 374, 376 

Proposed amendments, introd., time limit... 165 

Committee reference, Int. 263. 319 

Committee reference, (Int. Nos. 440, 529), 

changing. 445 

Committee reference (Int. Nos. 85, 86, *263, 

427, 472, 540.444-446 

Stenographer, excusing. 482 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 691 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion.75fi, 758 

Amendment, Int. 531, reporting amended.... 896 
Amendment, Int. 534, reporting amended.896-897 
Amendments,Int. 532, 535, reporting amended 897 
Military Affairs Com., progress, statement re. 897 
Memorial by Mr. Cole, reference, statement.. 968 
Blauvelt, excuse for, requesting.1013 


Page 

Military, Int. 531, 534, moving.1070 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.... 1215 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate.. 1309, 1310 

Amendment (Int. 532), recommitting.1435 

Militia (Int. 531), debate.1528-1530 

Militia (Int. 534, 535), debate.1531 

Militia (Int. 534), amending.1545 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1633-1637 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1897, 

1948, 1979, 1982, 2001-2019, 2023- 
2024, 2032, 2059, 2072-20-73, 2078 

Militia (Int. 531), final passage.2255 

Militia (Int. 534), final passage.2263 

Militia (Int. 535), final passage.2271 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2548, 2590, 

2626-2629, 2632, 2649 

Excuse for Mr. Brenner, requesting.2659 

Excuse for Mr. Reeves, requesting.2664 

Judiciary (Int. 714), debate ..2742-2743, 2757, 
2775-2778, 2780, 2789-2790, 2793 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2829 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3051 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3493-3495 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3d reading. .3585- 

3587 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3d reading.3614, 

3624 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 


3rd readme:.3640 

Countv government (Int. 721), debate.3742 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate_3785 


State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), amending. .3861- 

3862 

Militia (Int. 263, 423, 427, 440, 529, 659), . 


Com. report .3872 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4066-4068, 

4073-4075, 4215, 4238 

Mr. Law. 

Registration, absent electors (Int. 711), dis¬ 
cussion .1730 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1752 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate_2619, 2622-2623, 

2712 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3100 

County government (Int. 721), debate. .3720-3722 

Mr. Leary. 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 402 


Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), roads, debate. 1472 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1505-1506 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.. 4382 


Mr. Leggett. 

Committee ref., certain amend., discus’n. .63, 64 

Proposed amendments, introduction.111,156, 

253, 254, 338, 384 

Records, etc., printing, number dis’n. 231 

Const., uniformity in capitalization, etc. 241 

Committee reference (Int 303), suggesting.. 262 
Memorials from Citizens Hose Co., etc...50-9-510 
Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion .689-691 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate . 715-716 

Official oath, Int. 88, moving. 928 

Official oath, Int. 88, debate.929-932, 935-936 

Amendment, Int. 407, minority report. 979 




























































Stenographic Record, Index by Delegates 


195 


Page 

Amendment, Int. 194, minority report.. ..978-979 
Education, state control, Int. 698, debate.... 991 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1004, 1172 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1198 

Excuse, requesting .1017 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion... 1293 
Amendment (Int. 405) minority report. . .. . .1528 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1643-1544 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1552, 1561, 

1737-1738 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.... 1696-1697 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate..1782-1784 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading.2285 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2354 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2434-2435, 2445, 2484 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .2>509, 2524-2525, 

2529-2530, 2773 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2898-2899 

Voters, literacy te«t (Int. 686), debate.2925, 2928 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree . 3051—3052 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.. 3070-3071 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3100—3101, 

3126-3127, 3130 

Correction, page 3084 of Record.3497 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading.3521 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3566-3567 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3589- 

3590, 3596 

Absent electors (Int. 7II), vote, changing. .3678 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate.3752 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3876, 3878-3^879 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3795, 

3798-3799, 3801-3802 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing ..•.3949 

Food products, inspection (Int. 131), debate.4101- 

4102 

BHl of Rights (Int. 720), debate... .4192, 4198- 

4199, 4239 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4383 


Mr. Leitner. 
Proposed amendments, introd. of 


438 


Mr. Lincoln. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 75,157, 173, 
^ 339, 363, 386 


Amendment, Int. No. 608, amending.. .. 413 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, i27, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.908, 912 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion. 954 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1279, 

1281,1286 

Registration (Int. 7II), debate.. 1548—1549, 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate..*.1771-1774 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate .1947 

Error, page 1801 of record.1957-1958 

Adjourning, effect of .1998 

Registration (Int. 711), amending.2124 

Taxation (Int. 679), amending .2199-2200 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading debate 

2339, 2345 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate .2376 


Page 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .2577-2578, 2579- 

2584, 2586, 2589-2590 
Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate. .3084-3085 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 31) 

progress .3119, 3125 

Committee of W^'hole report (Int. 715) 

progress . 3150 

Committee of Wliole report (Int. 31) 3rd 

reading .3150 

Committee of WTiole report (Int. 715), prog¬ 
ress .3169 

Committee of WTiole repoft (Int. 715, 145), 

third reading .3194 

Correction, page 3084 of Record.3497 

Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate. .3498- 

3504 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3592, 

3598 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage.. . .3661, 

3664-3665, 3667 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3729, 3740 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate.3747 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate..4004, 4007- 

4008 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate .4416-4417 


Mr. Linde. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 108 

Spanish War veterans, memorials.1247 

Memorial, re Spanish War Veterans.1435 

Excuse for, requesting.2655 

Mr. Lindsay. 

Error in record, correcting. 68 

Proposed amendments, introduction.218, 245, 327 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting.256 

Data, various, requested by Convention, dis¬ 
position .'.!.464-465 

Excuse, requesting . 508 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate.722-723 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), majority re¬ 
port .798-799 

Indian Relations Com., progress, statement re 900 

Indian Relations Com. report.979-980 

Proposed amendments, introd. of.979-980 


Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, debate. . .1191-1194 

1205, 1214, 1216 

Indians, tribal courts, Int. 707, debate.1218, 1220 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider. 1234 

Indians, amendment, Int. 707, consideration, 

requesting .1252 

Memorial, re Spanish War Veterans.1435 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), appropriation, 

debate .1507-1508 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1531-1538, 

1540-1542, 1543^1546 

Excuse, requesting.1862 

Legislator’s salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading.2287-2288, 2289 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .2507-2509, 2558, 

2596, 2735-2736, 2738 


Amendment (Int. 697), special order.2574 

Time limit on debate (Int. 371), ruling.. . .2814- 

2815 

Committee of WTiole report (Int. 371), third 

reading.2816 

Committee of Whole report (Jnt. 712), third 
reading.2886 





























































196 


Stenographic Record, Index by Delegates 


Pag:e 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2895 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 712), ex¬ 
tend debate, progress.2848, 2862 

Amendment (Int. 713), amending, debate. . . .2954 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3076, 

3078-3079 

Highway appropriations (Int. 719), debate..3096 
Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading.3519 
County government (Int. 721), debate.3720, 3724, 

3739 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate..3745, 3748, 

3753 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3797 
Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3852 

Mr. Low. 

President of convention, nominating. 5-7 

N. Y. City, liankruptcy, refuting.21, 22 

N. Y. City governm’t, survey, appropriation. 35 

Error in record, correcting. 68 

Proposed amendments, introduction.73, 148 

268, 297, 377, 378, 401, 458-459, 
1250-1251, 1436 

"Sinking funds, data, discussion. 139 

Com. reference, suggesting (Int. 204).184 

Com, reference, suggesting (Int. 187). 186 

Proposed amendment, introd. of. 216 

Committee reference, Int. 146. 246 

Com. reference (Int. 282), suggesting. 254 

Committee reference, Int. 272. 263 

Com. reference, suggesting (Int. 312).267 

Com. reference (Int. 313), suggesting. 269 

Com. reference (Int. 265), suggesting. 272 

Hearings, home rule amend., discussion. .275, 276 
Error, pages 275 and 276, record, correcting. 281 
Committee reference, suggesting, Int. 377. . . . 305 

Com. reference (Int. 410), suggesting. 316 

Committee reference, Int. Nos. 378, 379 and 

380 .318, 319 

Committee reference (Int. 426). 325 

Committee reference (Int. 449), suggesting.. 334 

Amendment Int. No. 313, amending. 356 

Errors Eecord Nos. 23 and 24, date. 366 

Amendment Int. 28, amending. 372 

Committee refer., Int. Nos. 624, 632, 639, 640. 412 

Excuse for Mr. Schurman, requesting. 412 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discus..• 426 

Committee reference fint. 669), suggesting.. 437 

Committee reference (Int. No. 617) .. ... 448 

Eecess, over July 4, discussion. 454 

Amendment, Int. No. 272, reference. 475 

Memorial, voting machines, refer, changing.. 482 
Agricultural leases, (Int. 34), discussion.. 529, 

707, 708 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . 565-568 

Reapportionment, discussion ..595-596 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . .692-693 

Amendment, Int. 624, discussion.738, 783 

Emergency message, Int. 78, discussion. 770 

Amendment, Int. 700, disposition, on report¬ 
ing .863-864 

Cities Com., progress, statement re. 895 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion . 943-945 

Com. of Whole chairman, declining.1037 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1054, 1788 

Excu.se for Mr. Weed, requesting..1065 


Page 

Cities Com. report, submitting.1250 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion... 1308 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1392 

Cities Com. report (Int. 713), city debts... 1436 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1695', 1699 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1730-1733, 1740 
Home Rule (Int. 712) debate... 1875-1892, 1905, 
1960, 1963, 1969, 1979-1980, 1983-1991, 2025- 
2027, 2033, 2037, 2043, 2068, 2074-20)75, 2077- 
2078, 2079, 2080, 2817-2824, 2826-2830, 2833- 
2842, 2844, 2852-2853, 2856, 2858, 2860-2868, 
2869-2870), 2872, 2880, 2882-2885, 2886 

Amendment (Int. 713), amending.2081 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2093-2094 

Home Rule, Int. 712, time to report.2383 

Home Rule, Int. 718, reporting amended. .. .2487 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2533 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2887-2901 

Amendment (Int. 713), amending, debate. .2953- 

2955 

Cities, (Int. 712), amending.3035 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.3141 

3192-3193 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate..3320-3323 

Excuse for Mr. Schurman, requesting.3331 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3403, 3405, 

3478-3479, M82 

Cities Com. report (Int. 724), building zones.3505 

Proposed amendment, introduction of.‘3505 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.3614- 

3615, 3620, 3628-3629 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading ..3640, 3834-3840 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3726, 3731, 

3735, 3739-3740 

State departs., reorg. (Int. 716), vote ex¬ 
plaining .3950 

County government (Int. 721), vote explain¬ 
ing ..3966 

Foou products, inspection (Int. 131), debate.4106- 

4107 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4243 


Mr. McKean. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. .. 121, 122, 

184, 326,404 


Mr. McLean. 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representa¬ 
tion .592-594 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4383 


Mr. McKinney. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.90, 266 

Legislature, cost of, resolution.143, 144 

Tax com., proposed amend’t, introd..387, 389-390 

Com. of Whole report, Int. 705, progress_1273 

Cora, of Whole report, Int. 705, progress_1310 

Com. of Whole report, Int. 705, 3rd reading. 1313- 

1314 

Conservation Dept. (Int. .708), debate_1394- 

1395, 1397-1398 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1778-1779 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading.351S- 

3519 

































































197 


Stenographic Record, Index by Delegates 


Mr. Mandeville. Page 

Proposed amendments, introduction.156,298, 

362, 383, 384 

^Memorial, civil service.1566 


Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706'), debate. .2196-2198, 

2202-2209 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate..3000- 

3002 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing.._.3522-3523 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3565 

Mr. Mann. 

Seats, choosing .27, 28 

Proposed amendments, introduction.243, 252, 305 

State budget (Int. 709) debate.1694, 1699 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .2937- 

2939, 2941 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate.3002 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree . 3052 

Absence at roll call, explanation....-.3277 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3950 

Food products, inspection (Int. 131), vote ex¬ 
plaining .4115 

Bill of Eights (Int. 720), debate.4247, 4249 

Mr. Marshall. 

X. Y. C., county gov., survey, conv. com..20, 21 

X. Y. C., county gov., survey resol.32-33 

Committee ref., discussion (Int. 23).62-65 

Committee ref. (Int. 59), suggesting.93, 94 

Printing, documents, etc., explanation. 97 

Court of appeals, cases, data, resol.118, 119 

Committee reference, sug, (Int. 118). 133 

Proposed amendments, introduction.133,134, 

153-154, 243, 2238 
Committee reference, suggesting (Int, 206) . . 184 
Com. reference amend, re juries, discus’n. 188-190 

Committees, hearings, notice, posting. 213 

Committee reference. Int. 203, changing.218 

Prisoners, pardons, data, resolution. 240 

Amendments, amending, new print numbers., 258 

Cum. reference, (Int. 332), suggest.269, 270 

Committee reference (Int, 440), suggesting.. 333 
Committee reference (Int. Xos. 440, 529) .... 445 
Committee reference (Int. Xos. 546, 549) .... 447 
Amendments, Int. Xos. 23, 59, 95, 117, 196, 

297, 405, 408, 439, 475, 546, 554, 575, refer¬ 
ence . 475 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion.. 517-525, 

720 

Reapportionment, X. Y. City^s representation, 

debate.637-641 

Extra conipen., Int. 289, discussion.754-756 

758 

Laws complete in themselves, Int, 275, debate. 825- 

826 

Impeachment bv legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate.830-832, 833, 835-839 

Bill of Rights Com., progress, statement re. .. 894 
Registration, absent electors, Int. 42. 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.913-914, 920, 923 

Amendment, Int. 122, com. report, reconsider 

vote .980—981 

Education, state function, Int. 698, debate, 
discussion . .1078-1085, 1090, 1106, 1107, 1108 
Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.. 1109, 1165, 1166 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1205, 1206 


Pagu 

Amendment, Int. 327, motion to discharge 

com.1245-1240 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate_1269, 

1278-1282, 1284 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, amend.. 1278-1279 

liighway debts, Int. 705, amending.1312 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1333, 1334, 
1350, 1361, 1362, 1373-1374, 1380-1383, 1389, 
1392-1393, 1396-1399, 1407-1412, 1414-1418, 
1421, 1422, 1429, 1439, 1497-1502, 1505, 1507, 

1523, 1524 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate limit. .1361, 

1439 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), amending. ... 1419 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, 

debate .1514, 1516, 1521, 1522 

Conservation Dept, (Int. 708), roads, debate, 

1525-1520 


Registration (Int. 711), 

debate. . 1548, 

1557-156() 

Committee of 

Whole 

report (Int. 

709) 

progress .... 


.1594, 

1662, 1686- 

Committee of 

Whole 

report (int. 

709) 

third reading 


.1734 

Committee of 

Whole 

report (Int. 

711) 

progress .... 




Committee of Whole report (Int. 711) 

third 

reading. 



.1758 

Committee of 

Whole 

report (Int. 

679) 

progress .... 



. 1759- 


Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.. 1928-1931, 1947, 
1948, 1961-1986, 1989, 2042-2045, 2054- 

2065, 2070 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), amend.... 223(> 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720) committee report. .2230 

Int. 45 statement re. 2239 

Education (Int. 698), final pass., debate.2251-2252 
Legislator’s salary (Int, OOI), debate on 3rd 

reading .2280 

Impeachment (Int. 291) 3rd r’dg., debate..2337- 
2339, 2342-2343, 2347-2348, 2350 

Conservation (Int. 70S), debate.2382 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate. .2395, 2420-2427, 2430 

-2434, 2440, 2451-2452 
Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate. .2497, 2526, 2532- 
2534, 2536-2537, 2547-2560, 2565, 2570, 2590,. 
2598-2599, 2615, 2617, 2651, 2683-2687, 2689- 
2692, 2720, 2732-2735, 2754, 2758, 2760, 2764- 

2767, 2782-2786, 2792- 

Conservation (Int. 708) amending.2576 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371), debate.2811-2810 
Home Rule (Int. 712), debate..2821-2822, 2824, 
2829-2830, 2832-2833, 2837, 2844, 2859 
Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate 2892, 2896, 2900 
Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .. .2917— 
2919, 2940-2941, 2943-2944 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate .3020-3021 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3098-3099, 

3101, 3133 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3140, 3162, 
3168, 3177-3183, 3188-3189, 3192 
Constitution, submitting (Int. 145), third 

reading.3194 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3401, 3405, 
3455. 3472, 3475, 3479, 3488, 3494 
Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading.3519- 

3521- 

Conservation ^xnt. 70S), debate..3547, 3553-3555,. 

3557 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3582 
















































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Page 

Bill of Eights (Int. 720), amending. .. .3637-3638 

Amendment (Int. 720), special order.3641 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ...3665, 

3666 

Conservation (Int. 708), error in printing. . .3682 

Floor privilege for S. Lockwood.3717 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3737, 3739 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate.3755 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3770-3771 

Food products, measuring (Int; 131), debate.3796, 

3803 


Mr. Mealy. Page 

Proposed amendments, introdution of.380 

Pages, chief of, appointing.975-976 


Stenographers, conv., app., etc., resol. .".1064 

Canals (Int. 710), debate.2975-2976, 2985 

Mr. Meigs. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.252,253, 

269, 326, 327 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. 1374-1375, 
. 1404-1405, 1477-1484, 1485-1491, 1503, 

1504, 1524-1526 


Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3886-3888 

Eeapportionment (Int. 722), debate..3905, 3991- 
3992, 4023, 4025, 4027, 4031-4033 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate . .4129 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4281-4285 

Bill of Eights (Int. 720), debate.4053-4067, 

4071-4076, 4192, 4197-4198, 4200-4202, 4208- 
4209, 4211, 4213-4214, 4217-4219, 4238-4239, 
4242-4246, 4250-4254, 4258-4266. 

Eevised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate .4415-4417 


Mr. F. Martin. 

Proposed amendments, intro....316, 336, 360,403 
Committee reference (Int. 505) suggesting.. 363 
Eeapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate. 626-627 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1698-1699 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate.1934 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate. 2391, 2393, 2407, 2408- 

2409, 2467 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .2517-2518, 2530, 
2559, 2568-2570, 2572-2573, 2610, 2625-2626, 
2630, 2632-2633, 2636, 2639-2640, 2642-2645, 
2647, 2649, 2731-2732, 2771, 2788, 2790, 2793 


Excuse for, requesting. 2656 

Adjourning Saturday afternoon.....3283 


Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3583- 

3584, 3597 


Eeapportionment (Int. 722), debate..4015 

Bill of Eights (Int. 720), debate.4201, 4207, 4250 


Mr. L. M. Martin. 

President, nomination, seconding. 7-8 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 172, 173, 269 

Bill drafting expert, discussion. 175 

Doorkeeper E. E. Lewis, excuse. 304 

Emergency message, Int. 78, discussion.. 768-769, 

770, 771, 818-820, 822 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1318 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 531, 535) 

third reading .1562 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 707, 534) 

third reading .1563 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 711) 

progress .1563 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1785 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. ...2588-2589. 2591, 

2605, 2612, 2729-2730 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3127-3128 

Countv government (Int. 721), debate. .3726-3728, 

3730 


Correction, document 28.1434 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3102-3103 

Eoll call, absence, explaining.3278 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3885—3886 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 
passage, debate .4123, 4131 


Mr. Mereness. 

Error, convention record, correcting.68, 69 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 75, 306, 469 
Amendment No. 12, reference, change. .;.... 102 
Amendment No. 57, reference, changing...-., 104 

Journal, etc., printing number. 203 

Charles Andrews, ex-judge, congratulatory 

resolution, discussion . 288 

Amendment Int. 36, discharge committee. 303 

Legislature, composition, discussion. 352 

Stenographers, attendance, discussion. 414 

Capital punishment, hearing, printing, dis¬ 
cussion . 793 

County, Town and Village Officers Com., prog¬ 
ress, statement re. 895 

Amendment, Int. 57, reporting.968-969 

Education, state func., Int. 698, disc.1093 

taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1181 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1207, 1223 
Conservation Department. (Int. 708) .. 1373-1374, 

1437-1439, 1504 

Memorial, re Spanish War Veterans.1434 

Eegistration (Int. 711), debate.1561 

Amendment (Int. 57), recommitting.1666 

County officers, removal (Int. 717) reporting. 1762 

Proposed amendment, introduction of.1762 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1784 

Public Serv. Com. (Int.- 706), debate.2174 

Conservation, Int. 708, amending.2382 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate....2685, 2690-2692, 

2703-2704 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2896 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate..,2951 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3053 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.. 3072-3073 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3110-3111 

Taxation (Int. 679), vote explaining.3574 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage.3664-3665 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3851-3852 

Eeapportionment (Int. 722), debate. . . .4013-4014 
Food products, inspection (Int. 131), debate..4105 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407) final 

passage, debate .4124 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote 4384 

Mr. Mulry. 


Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate.3745 


Excuse, requesting 


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199 


Mr. Newburger. Page 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 133, 215, 334 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2427 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading,3622- 

30)23 

Highways (Int. 31), vote explaining.30)30) 

Cities, Judiciary (Int. 712, 718), vote.3841 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing . 3951 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate.4426 


Mr. C. Nicoll. 

Proposed amendments, intro... 134, 182. 326,401 
Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explain¬ 
ing . 656 

Amendment (Int. 716), minority report. ... 1735 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1744-1745 

Home rule (Int. 712).1975-1976, 1997, 2078 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate.2745-2746 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2831, 2835 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3408- 

3409, 3421-3422, 3440, 3493 
Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate. . . .3503 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4264 

Excue for, requesting.4303 


Mr. D. Nicoll. 

Leg. two houses, com. resol., discus... 429-430 
Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion. . . 486- 

487, 500 

John Clinton Gray, death, resol. 534 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.628—637, 638, 640 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion.756-757 

Emergency message, abolish, Int. 78. 821 

Registration absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, di.scussion. 906 

Official oath, Int. 88, discussion. 932 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion. 1001, 1110, 1123, 

1124, 1127, 1158, 1167 
Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion.. 1093 

1094-1095 

Special orders, Int. 701, 705, 708, rules rept. .1031 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. . .1271 
State Budget (Int. 709), debate'. .1576, 1611-1612, 
1618, 1653-1657, 1682-1683, 
1705-1706, 1709, 1710 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate.. 1945-1947, 1958- 
1961, 1965, 1969-1970, 1981-1982, 1984- 
1988, 1990-1992, 1994, 2002-2003, 2009, 
2023, 2031-2033, 2036, 2058, 2062-2063, 

2067-2068 


Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2120 

Privilege (Int. 701) vote, explaining-..2159 


Short ballot, letter from E. R. Brown, dis¬ 
cussion .2238 

Judiciary (Int. 718). debate....2396, 2410-2412, 
2495, 2497, 2539-2546, 2548, 2570, 2578-2579, 
2602. 2627-2628, 2630-2633, 2636, 2697, 2699- 
2700, 2711, 2726, 2772-2773, 2780, 2790-2792 

Lunacv Commission (Int. 371), debate.2809 

Home'Rule (Int. 712), debate. .2821, 2824, 2827, 

2848-2852, 2874-2876 
Voters, literacy test (Int. 686). . .2907, 2947, 2948 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree . 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang- 


Page 


Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.3142 

3161-3163, 3167, 3183, 3188, 3191 

Excuse for Mr. Sheehan, requesting.3203 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3337-3348 
Privileges of door for Win. F. McCombs.3350 


Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3582- 

3583, 3587, 3594, 3598 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.3628 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3rd 

reading.3688, 3690, 3693 

Floor privilege for Job E. Hedges.3726 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate . .. 3876 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3951 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate..3994, 4008, 

4030 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.40'69-4071, 4075, 

4077 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 720), prog¬ 
ress .4200, 4220 

Com. of Whole report (Int. 720), 3rd reading.4266 
Com. of Whole report (Int. 193)j progress. .4283, 

4286 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote, 

4385-4387 


Address to the People, discussion of.4438 

Address to the People, vote, explaining.4445 

Announcement of presentation ceremony for 

President.4453 

Resolution of thanks to President Root.4457 


Mr. Nixon. 

Proposed amendments, intro, of.... Ill, 407-408 
Taxation, Int. 679, amendm. offering. .. 1111-1118 


Mr. Nye. 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 362 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2693 

Mr. J. L. O’Brian. 

Rules, proposing .17-19 

Rules, resolution, adopt, printing. 36 

Rules, amendments, submitting.40-43 

Proposed amend., second reading, discussion.. 60 

Rules, amending.65-67 

Committee rooms, rule report.75, 76 

Committee reports, contents, discussion. 77 

Sessions, convention, time of.78-80 

Rules amendments, printing. 81 

Sessions, not fixed by rule. 95 

Minor offices, rules and minor offices com. 

report.112, 113 

Committee, clerks, stenographers, desig..ll3, 114 
Clerks, stenog., for com., appoint, rules 

report.123, 124 

Committee rooms, assignment. 125 

Stenographers to convention, desig. 125 

Clerks, stenograhers, etc., rules report. 135 

Proposed amend., intro, of, time limit, notice. 142 

Error, journal, record, correcting.151, 152 

Clerks, stenog., appoint, rules report. 157 

Committtees, originating amendments. .. 158, 159 


Proposed amendments, introd., time limit. 159, 160 

165 

Governor, invitation to address conv. discus.. 168 
Clerks, stenographers, appoint, rules report.. 174 


Excuse, nonattendance, requesting. 176 

Committees, meetings, notice, calendar. 213 




























































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Page 

Vice-president, secretary to, rules report. 219 

Clerks, stenographers, rules report. 226 

Documents, supt. of, appointing. 226 

Records, journals, etc., number, distribution, 

com. report.226,227, 229, 233, 234 

Magna Charta, celebration rules report. 235 

Committee hearings, notice of, rules report.. 235 

Magna: Charta celebration, rules report.237 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. .. 245, 246 
Second vice-pres. messenger, office, providing.. 246 
Supplemental rep. of Constitution Conv. Com., 

printing . 287 

Committee reference, Int. 268. 363 

Tax com. proposed amendment, introd., disc’n. 392 
Stenographers, attendance, discussion...... 414 

Water, drinking, for Convention, com. report, 

discussion .424-425 

Legislature, two houses, com. resol., discus.. 426, 

492-494 

G. A. R. Convention, Rules Com. report. 477 

Rules Com. report, amend rule 56, suspension 

of rules .477-478 

Rules Com. repor,t, amend rule 32.478-479 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion. 529 

Night sessions of Convention, discussion.... 535 
Stenographers, clerks, excusing, motion. . .678-679 
Amendments, reporting by com, procedure, 

amend Rule 32.705-706 

Resolutions, to lie over, amend Rule 50. .734-735 
Convention rules, printing as amended. ..785-786 
Clerk, Cities Com., appointing, resol....!.. 786 
State conventions, nominations, Int. 4, discus¬ 
sion . 850 

Committee statement, Int. 573, printing. 858 

Messengers, appointing, etc., resol. 863 

County, Town and Village Gov. Com., progress, 

statement re. 895 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider, vote. 1239 
Amendments, Int. 708, 531, 534, 535, 707, 709, 711, 

679, 712, 706, special orders.1356-1360 

Convention sessions, 3 daily.1360 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1411, 1516 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), special order. 1430 
Home rule (Int. 712), printing additional 

copies .1436 

Rules Com. report (Int. 708), debate closing. 

1471-1472 


Indian Courts (Int. 707) , debate.. 1541-1542, 1543 
Registration (Int. 711), debate limiting.1594-1595 

Special Orders, unfinished,'procedure.1595 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1661 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1561, 1562 

State Budget (Int. 709), limiting debate.. . .1667. 

1685-1688 

Registration (Int. 711), debate, extending... 1736 

Registration (Int. 711), debate...1739 

Taxation (Int. 679), quorum.. .1758 

Taxation (Int. 679) limiting debate.1762 

Home rule (Int. 712) special order.1762 

Amendment (Int. 701) special order.1836 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. 1932-1945, 1992- 
1995, 2032-2033, 2047, 2075-2070 
Amendments (Int. 371, 686, 710, 718), mak¬ 
ing special order.:.,2080 

Amend. (Int. 716) consideration, time of...2081 

Int. 701, Com. of Whole report.2121 

Statement on roll call re absent members. .2140 
Conntv government. Int, 721, Com, report. . . .2383 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate, limiting.2490 


Page 

Amendments (Int. 712, 713, 706, 719), 

special order .2573-2574 

Amendments (Int. 371, 686 , 710, 712, 713, 

706, 719) limiting debate.2573-2574 

Amendment (Int. 697), special order..2574-2575 

Excuse, requesting.2576 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .. .2739, 2768-2769 
Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. .2829, 2832, 2839, 
2843-2845, 2848, 2850, 2852, 2859-2862, 2866, 
2870-2874, 2876-2877, 2881, 2883 
Canals (Int. 710), debate ..2958, 2964, 2974-2976 
Amendments (Int. 31, 715, 145, 716), make 

special orders .3033-3034 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing . ..3064 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ) dis¬ 
agree .;.3054 

Legislators’ salar}" (Int. 697), debate.. 3069, 3070, 

3073, 3078, 3079 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3080 

3077-3081, 3084-3085, 3087-3089 
Amendments (Int. 31, 715) debate limiting 

3125-3126 


Excuse for Mr. J. S. Phillips, requesting. .. .3156 

Amendment (Int. 715), debate limited.3160 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.... 3163- 

3164, 3166, 3169, 3191 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3290 

Amendment (Int. 716), debate limited.3335 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3439 

Quorum, lack of, roll call. 3534 

Amendments (Int. 696, 721), special orders.3599 


Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.3621- 

3^22 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .364.3-3644 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading . 3689 

Amendments (Int. 702, 407, 714, 131, 722, 

720, 194, 193, 405, 465, 269, 573, 565), 

made special orders .3709-3710 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3718-3720, 
3729, 3733, 3735, 3737-3739, 3741-3742, 3743 
Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading ..3836 

Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading..3517, 
^ 3.52.3 

County gov’t (Int. 721), debate, extending. .3733 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3848-3849 

Amendments (Int. 725, 717, 724), special 

orders .3990 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. ..3999-4000, 
^ , 4011 

Rules, suspending, notice of.4156-4157 

Rules, suspendinfi . 4173 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4214 

Adjournment Sept. 4, Rules Com. report... 4228- 

4229 

Civil service (Int. 29), Rules Com. action_4230 

Resolution of thanks to officers, employees, 
etc.‘_4450 


Mr. M. J. O’Brien. 

N. Y. City, government, survey, etc.33-35 

Constitution, printed copies for use of conv. . 1.32 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting. 209 

Constitutional conv. comm’n report, printing. 248 
Const, conv. comm’n suppl. report, printins-?. 287 
Proposed amendments, introd. of.41)0, 446 































































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201 


Page 

Reapportionment, N, Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion .535-536, 545-549 

Committee of the Whole report, Int. 698,679.1013 
Party nominat’s, Int. 699, substit., offer.1041-1042 
Party nom., Int. 699, prop, sub., printing. 1064 
Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion.. 1097 
Conservation i)ept. (Int. 708), debate. 1333, 1334- 

1341 

Ilome rule (Int. 712), debate.... 1906-1910, 2030, 

2052-2054 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2152 

Education (Int. 698), amending.2253-2254 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2414-2415 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate... 2687-2688, 2749- 

• 2750 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .2944-2945 

Excuse for, requesting..3199 

Constitutional Convention Commission, final 

report. 3278-3279 

Conservation (Int. 70S), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3545-3547 

Amendment (Int. 720), consideration of.... 3642 
Home rule (Int. 712), vote explaining. ...3830 
State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3952 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .4003, 4005- 

4006, 4017 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4084-4085 

Adjournment Sept. 4.4229 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate., . . . .4240, 4264 
Building heights (Int. 724), consideration. .4268 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4388 
Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate.4424 

Address to the People, discussion of.4439 

Address to the People, vote, explaining.4445 

Appointment on Com. of notification to Secy, 
of State .4453 


Mr. O’Connor. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.272, 385 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3480, 3483 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), vote, explaining.4291 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4388-4389 


Mr. Olcott. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.57, 58, 73, 

Sessions conv., time of, discussion. 79 

Subjects, consideration of, limiting, tabling 

motion. 

.Amendment, Int. 249, amending. 482 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285. 372, discussion.921-922, 924 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1012, 1125 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, de¬ 
bate .1518-1519, 1522 

Registration (Int. 711). debate.. 1554, 1556, 1733 , 

State Budget (Int. 709). debate.1681, 1689 | 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1778-1779 ] 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2081-2083 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2209- 

2218, 2227 

Judiciarv (Int. 718) debate.2371 

2412-2418, 2430 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate ..2506-2507, 2509- 

2511, 2527, 2720 


Page 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. .2834, 2879, 2881 
Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate..2939- 

2941, 2947 

Int. 716, special order for August 30th.3034 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate.2986 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3064 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 7161, debate. ..3483, 

3491, 3493-3494, 3496 

Memorials, Spanish War Veterans.3498 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. ..3557-3559, 

3570 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), debate. .3754-3755, 

3757 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3759, 3771 

Civil Service Com. report, consideration of.3807- 

3808 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate. .3896- 

3897 

Civil service, veterans (Int. 29), making 

special order .4167-4170 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720),Rebate.4205-4206, 4214, 

4251 

Civil service, veterans (Int. 29), Rules Com. 

action.4229-4230, 4237 

Civil service (Int. 29), Rules suspend, no¬ 
tice ; . . .4267 


Mr. Ostrander. 

Court of claims, cases, expenses, data...213, 214 

Proposed amendments, introduction.110, 244 

268, 381 

Error, page 213, record, correcting. 248 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.623-626 

Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing .699, 701 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, dis¬ 
cussion . 722 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1160, 1169, 

1797-1798 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. 1348. 1370- 

1373, 1387-1389 

Alemorial re Spanish War Veterans.1528 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1684 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1842 

Excuse, requesting .1918 

Judiciarv, Int. 718, debate.2398, 2427-2430, 2468 

2472-2477, 2486 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2774 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate.3010, 3012 
Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate. .3074-3076 
Future amendments (Int. 715) debate. 3144-3145, 

3187 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3238-3245, 

3313, 3419, 3466 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3567 

Absent electors (Int. 711), vote explain¬ 
ing .3676, 3679 

Food products, Pleasuring (Tnt. 131), debate. 3801 
State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3952-3953 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4137 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4389 


Mr. Owen. 

Excuse for, requesting. 


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Mr. Parmenter. Page 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 384 

Excuse for Mr. Johnson, requesting.3372 

County government (Int. 721), debate. .. .3729- 

3730, 3735 

Keference, pages 3729-3730 of Kecord, cor- 

rect.3872 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3883-3884 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate. .3900- 

3901 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining. 4137 

Excuse for, requesting.4304 


Mr. Parsons. 

Rules, adoption, discussion.19, 20 

Woman suffrage, resolution. 52 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. 57, 243, 252, 
315, 316, 360, 377, 401, 1470 

Committee reference, suggesting.62, 63 

Printing contract, question... 68 

Committee reports, contents . 77 

Committee reports, contents.77, 78 

Woman suffrage, resolution, printing. 94 

Constitutional amend, submitted by legis. 

1915, data . 101 

Amendment No. 46, reference, correcting 

Journal. 104 

Sinking fund, data, resol., discussion.... 139, 140 
Rule 72, clerks, etc., control, rules report. 157, 158 
. Com. reference suggesting certain amend.... 182 
Com. reference, suggesting, certain amend. . .. 183 
Committee hearings, notice of, resolution.. .. 200 

Journal, etc., printing, number.203, 205 

Stenographer, future amendments com., rules 

report.207, 208 

Record, journal, etc., printing, number.. .211, 212 
Records, journals, etc., printing dist., dis.,.228-230 

Committee reference, Int. 246. 246 

Amendment, Int. 286, amending.257, 258 

Amendments amending, new print numbers.. 258 

Committee reference, Int. 315. 281 

Recess over Decoration Day, hour-..288,289 

Committee reports by majority, discussion. . 303 

Committee reference, Int. 358. 308 

Stenographer, Industrial Interests Com., 

com. report . 309 

Committee reference, suggesting . 385 

Committee reference, Int. 498. 387 

Printing com. hearing, certain, as document, 

discussion . 398 

Prayer, con. ses., clergymen, compen., resol. 398 

Committee reference, Int.. 540. 399 

Committee reference, Int. 582, changing.. .. 408 
Com. ref., Int. Nos. 86, 172, 655, 543, suggest. 436 
Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate.596-598, 633 

Convention sessions. Rules Com. report. 677 

4 684-685, 693 

Conservation Com. clerk, resignation, ap¬ 
pointment . 683 

Court of appeals opinion, Jensen vs. South¬ 
ern Pacific Co., printing.'.. . 790 

Quorum, lack of, discussion. 807 

Aajourning, motions re, discussion. 809 

Committee statement, Int. ’573, printing. 858 

Amendment, Int. 701, disposition on report¬ 
ing . 865 


Page 

Industrial Interests Com., progress, statement 

re . 898 

Amendment, Int. 194, reporting amended. . 898-899 
Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.906-907, 914, 919 

Official oath, Int. 88, discussion.933-935 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.950, 953, 954, 1057 
1060, 1061, 1173, 1174, 1780 
Amendment, Int. 699, proj). sub., prntg. . . . 1064 
Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion. 1089 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1197, 1206 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1332, 1333, 
1375, 1405, 1415, 1418, 1485, 1495-1496, 

1499, 1511 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), com. report. 1470 
Amendment (Int. 131), reporting amended. .1470- 

1471 

Minimum wage (Int. 193), reporting amended 

1471 

Amendment (Int. 405), reporting.1471 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1558-1559, 1562 
State Budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1599-1601, 1604- 

1605, 1615, 1617, 1678 
State Budget (Int. 709), limiting debate. . . .1667 
Registration (Int. 711), debate. . 1734, 1743, 1747, 

1750-1751, 1754 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1825, 1845-1852 

Privilege (Int. 701), motion.1919 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate. .. 1904, 1905, 1928 
1930-1931, 1970-1971, 1976, 198? 
Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, debate.2343 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2831-2832, 

2845, 2863-2864, 2878-2879 
Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate. . .2898, 2900-2901 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate_2907- 

2909, 2935-2937, 2951-2052 
Amendment (Int. 713) amending, debate. . .2954 

Excuse for, requesting.2659 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3065 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.... 3139- 

3140, 3147-3149, 3187 
State Dept., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3312, 3374- 

3376, 3484 

Debts, cities, counties '(Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading . 3040 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3555 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read- 

.3619-3620 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading .3692-3693 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), debate.3757 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3759, 3762-3763 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), de¬ 
bate . . . 3796-3797 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate..3890- 

3892, 3895,* 3897, 3903 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de- 

.bate . . ..3873-3876, 3879, 3889-3890 

Civil Service (Int. 59), discharge com.3806 

Reapportionment (Int. 722). debate. .4002-4003 
4006-4007, 4019-4023, 4025, 4028 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate ..4118, 4123, 4129-4130 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate_4219. 4257- 

T^ 4258, 4264-4266 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate. .4281-4282, 4285 


























































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Page 

Living wage (Int. 193), discharge com....4295- 

4296 

Excuse for Mr. Parmenter.4304 

Submission of revised Constitution, manner 

of, Com. rep.,.4414 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate .4415-4416, 4418, 4424-4425, 4427 

Resolution of thanks, Capitol building em¬ 
ployees .4450 


Page 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3768 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3776- 

3777, 3786-3787, 3790 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), debate on 3rd 

reading.4100 

Committee records, disposition on final ad¬ 
journment .4172 

Excuse for, requesting .4306 


Mr. Pelletreau. 

Excuse for Mr. McKinney, requesting. 166 

Proposed amendments, introduction.171,180, 

181, 214, 215 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. . 1400-1402 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2523 

Excuse for, requesting.2657 


Mr. J. S. Phillips. 

Convention officers, employees, resol. fixing 

number, etc.22,23 

Minor offices, nominations, com. report.... 44-48 
Minor offices, partial report, submission.. ..55-56 

Excuse for Mr. Clearwater, requesting. 69 

Minor officers, designating.125,126 

Committee reference, sug. certain amend.. 186 

State officers, electing, other states. 191 

Prisoners, pardons, data, com. report. 255 

Court of Claims, cases, data.255,256 

Constitutional con. com. reports, etc. 277 

Fines, penalty, licenses, societies collecting, 

data, com. report.286,287 

Amendment Int. 290, amending.. 287 

Prisoners, pardons, data, printing, resol.... 439 
Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion.. .. 495 

Waters, surplus, data. Com. report. 676 

Commissioners of records, N. Y., Kings, data. 

Com. report. 684 

Indictments, data, resol.. Com. report. 684 

Committee of the Whole report. 843 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, discussion. 844 

Taxation, Int. 679, debate.1047, 1172-1173 

1174-1175, 1176, 1178, 1189 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider, vote. 1240 

Amendment, Int. 696, reporting. 1251 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1753 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 701) 

progress .1835, 1860, 2096 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 679) 

third reading .1835 

Doorkeeper, assistant, leave.1836 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 701), strike 

out enacting clause .2121 

Excuse, requesting.2490 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2634-2635, 

2696-2701, 2708, 2724-2725 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2820 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

3019-3020 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3039, 3061, 3067, 3069 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.. 3079-3080 

Excuse for, requesting.3156, 3606 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716) debate.3361 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3596 


Mr. S. K. Phillips. 

Prayer, con. sessions, clergymen inviting.52, 53 


Telephones, convention use, resol.... . 53 

Water, drinking, convention, use...^. 53 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 109 

Stenographers, transcripts, price, etc. 119 

Water, drinking for convention. 158 

Stenographer, expenses, resol., recommitting. . 175 
Expenses of convention, esti., statement.. . . 247 
Court of appeals, data, communication, 

printing, com. report. 286 

Witnesses for committees, expenses, com. 
report . 319 


Legislative Index Pub. Co., contract, com. rep. 388 
Drinking cups, sanitary, com. report, adop.. 408 

stenographers, certain, transferring. 483 

Labor, State Federation of, memorial, print¬ 
ing . .. 675 

Stenographer, M. E. Cummings, leave. 698 

Stenographers, certain, transferring. 734 

^Messengers, clerks, certain, transferring, etc. 734 

Telephone operator, leave. 785 

Messenger, appointing . 785 

Sinking funds, data from comptroller, print¬ 
ing . 802 

Telephone operators, appointment, etc. 872 

Contingent Expenses Com., progress, state¬ 
ment re .. 901 

G. O. and 3rd reading files, resol., adoption 

Com. rep. 968 

Drafting clerk. Rev. Com., appg., resol. .. .1069 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1190 

Pages, chief, appointing.1319 

Suffrage Com. hearing, speeches, printing. . . .1319 

Legislative Index Pub. Co., indexes.1671 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate..'...2715 

Clerks, certain, compensation, resol.4449 

Secretaries, clerks, etc., continued for 30 days.4450 


Mr. Potter. 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4216 


Mr. Quigg. 

Rules, amendments, discussion.41, 42, 44 

Committee rooms, assigning, resol. 48 

Committee reference (Int. 17) suggesting. .61. 62 

Rules, printing . 67 

Printing, discussion . 81 

Committee ref. (Int. 57), suggesting.92, 93 

Rules, change, method of. 95 

Documents, etc., printing information. 96 







































































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Page 

Amendment No. 12, com. ref., changing. 101-105 

Proposed amends., printed copies, dis. 105 

Proposed amendments, introduction.109,148, 

149, 361, 449 

Secy, to Revision Com., appointment of, de¬ 
ferring . 114 

Keys, delegates’ desks....,./. 116 

Error in record, discussion.*. 118 

Sinking fund bonds. 121 

Documents, amend., etc., printed dis. 131 

Sinking fund bonds, data, discussion. 137 

Taxation, constitutional provisions, pam¬ 
phlet, discussion. 145 

Committees, originating amendments. .. 158, 159 
Constitution, revise, submit, time and man¬ 
ner, resolution .168,169 

.Journal, etc., printing, number.204-206 

Legislature, composition, resol.240-242 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting. 248 

Proposed amendments, introd. of, 3 copies.. 259 
Magna Charta celebration, invitation to 

Pres. Wilson, discussion . 260 

Recess over Decoration Day, hour.288,289 

Stenographer, appoint., rules report., discus. 324 
Canal bonds, etc., data, com., report, discus.. 328 

Committee reference, suggesting. 334 

Legislature, composition, discussion. . 344, 346-347 

352, 484-485, 493-495 

Transfer tax, data, obtaining. 354 

Committee reference . 371 

Tax com. proposed amend., introd., diseus’n. 392 
Resolution of sympathy for S. K. Phillips.. 456 

Rules suspension, discussion. 478 

Rule 32, amending, discussion. 479 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion. . .512, 515, 

518, 519, 719-722 

Night sessions of Convention, resol., infor¬ 
mation requesting . 534-535 

Resolution re work of Convention, calling up. 568 
Reapportionment, State re N Y Tribune at¬ 
tack .674-675 

Convention sessions. Com. report, discussion. . 677 

685-686 

Amendments, introduction by com., pro¬ 
cedure .. 704 

Amendment, Int. 624, discussion.. 739 

Attendance, Saturday sessions.744, 782-783 

Emergency message, Int. 78, discussion.. 759-760, 

.769 

Assistant clerk to Judiciary Com., resol., con¬ 
sideration . 779 

Saturday sessions of Convention, discussion.790- 

792, 876-878 

Quorum, lack of, discussion... .805-809,. 811, 880 

Adiourning over Saturday. 862 

Bell, excuse for, requesting. 890 

Amendment, Int. 704, printing and laying 

over.;... 891 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.905, 909, 912 

Mulry. excuse for, requesting.925, 971 

Official oath, Int. 88 , discussion. 931 

Education, state func., Int. 698, disc...947, 1083 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1057-1059 

Adjourning over Saturday.1016 

Com. on Rules rep., publication in press, 

statement.1032 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider. 1234, 1240 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate. .1271, 1313 


Page 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1333, 1334, 
1341, 1355, 1362, 1380-1381, 1390, 1393, 
1395, 1398-1400, 1402, 1440 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate, limit. 

1360-1361 


Correction, page 1393 of the Record.1434 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate. .1589, 1591, 1623, 
1634, 1646-1649, 1661, 1677, 1091, 1692, 

1694, 1724 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.1673 

Excuse, requesting..1736 

Home Rule (Int. 712), quorum.1949, 1954, 

1979, 1980 

Home Rule (Int. 7-2), debate... 1986, 1995, 2061 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate, vote.2120, 2160 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2180- 

2188, 2190, 2195 


State budget (Int. 709), vote, explaining. ..2317 
Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, debate. 

2342, 2347 


Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2370, 2376, 2392, 2446 
2462, 2464, 2467-2468, 2476-2477 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2494-2498, 

2500-2502, 2504-2506, 2510, 2515, 2525, 
2527-2528, 2537, 2557, 2572, 
2579, 2607 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate_2633, 2635, 2639, 

2641-2643, 2651, 2705, 2717, 2718, 2723, 
2725-2726, 2733-2734, 2737-2738, 2743, 
2756, 2769, 2772, 2784 

Judiciary (Int. 718), quorum, lack of.2660, 

2671-2674 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2824-2826, 

2840, 2869 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.3003 

Amendment (Int. 716) special ordei', chang- 

• ing .3039, 3063, 3065 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ) dis¬ 
agree .3042, 3063, 3054 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3080 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate. 3192 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate_3210- 

3211, 3230, 3246-3253, 3255 

Excuse, requesting .3280 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate_3338, 

3340, 3357, 3361, 3403, 3415-3416, 3440-3441, 
3443, 3447, 3450-3451, 3465-3406, 3486 
Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading.3519 
Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3 rd read¬ 
ing . 3557 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd r^- 

ing.3622 

Absent electors (Int. 711), vote explaining. .3676 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading . 3090 , 3693 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3742 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), debate.3755, 3757 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3763-3764, 3767-3768 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3780- 


Food products, measuring (Int. 131), de- 

...3800, .3803 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3908-3909, 
3991, 3993-3994, 3996-.3997, 4014, 4022, 4024 
Reapportionment (Int, 722), excu.se from 

voting... 4939 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), amending. .4099- 


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Page 

Pood products, inspection (Int. 131), debate.4106 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4138 

Bill of Bights (Int. 720), debate.4219 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4272 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4390, 4399 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate .4418, 4427 

Address to the People, discussion of..4428, 4436- 

4437 

Committee to aid 1916 Legislature.4451 


Mr. Reeves. • 

Proposed amendment, introd. of. 56 

Proposed amendments, introduction.243,267, 

333, 357, 374 

Committee ref. (Int. 422), suggesting. 318 

Commissioners of records. New York, Kings, 

data, resolution .474-475 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 693 

Agricultural leases, amendment, Int. 34, 

debate ..711-714, 721-722 

Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion. . 1084 

laxation, Int. 679, debate. 1121-1122 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1461 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, de¬ 
bate . 1520-1521 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1538 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1702-1704 

Excuse, requesting .1862 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2072 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate...2187-2190 


2220-2221 

Judiciary tint. 718), debate.2477-2478 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2545 

Excuse "for, requesting.2655, 2664 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2758-2762, 

2766-2767, 2787-278S 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.2996 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ) dis¬ 
agree .3055 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.....3132 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. ...3559-3560 
Capital punishment (Int. 720), minority re¬ 
port .3642 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate. .. .4075-4076, 
4078-4080, 4088, 4193, 4214, 4255-4256 
^Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4138 

Building heights (Int. 724), consideration..4268 


Mr. Rhees. 

Excuse for Mr. Tuck, requesting. 274 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.. 307,406 
Civil Service Com., progress, statement re.. .. 901 
Excuse, requesting. 976 


Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1352, 1392, 

1413, 1526 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3236, 3487 
Civil Service Com. report (Int. 29, 53, 77, 

136, 138, 142, 237, 263, 281, 284, 351, 427, 

508, 528, 614, 641, 642, 657, 658), ad¬ 
versely^ . . . ..3506 


Page 

Proposed amendment, introduction of.3761 

Canal Board, etc. (Int. 725), Com. report. .3761 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3772- 

3//0, 3/8^, 3 /90 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), motion to 


adopt.3861 

Canal Board (Int. 725), debate.4051-4052 

Civil Service, veterans (Int. 29), making 
special order .4170-4171 


Mr. Richards. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 73 

Sessions, convention, time of, discussion... 79 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.... 1204 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3587 


Mr. Rodenbeck. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.173,245, 

285, 339 

Bill drafting expert, appoint., com. report.174, 175 

Revision and engrossment, com. room. 175 

Amendments, statement of reasons. 223 

Constitution, uniform, of capitalizat’n, resol. 241 

Revision Com., progress, statement re. 900 

Revision Com. (Int. 78, 531, 534, 535, 289, 

291, 707, and 698), reporting. 1668-1671 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.1674 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1700 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2078 

Revision Com. report (Int. 698, 289, 707) . . .2141 

Revision Com. report (Int. 291).2142 

Revision Com. report (Int. 291), amended. 2164 

Revision Com. report (Int. 697).2198-2199 

Revision Com. report (Int. 705, 709).2199 

Revision Com. report (Int. 289, 707, 291), en¬ 
grossment .2201 

Taxation (Int 679), Revision Com. report. .2354 
Revision Com. report (Int. 291 and 698) . . . 

2575-2576 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2985 

Revision Com. report (Int. 708, 371, 718) 

engrossing .3035-3036 

Revision Com. report (Int. 713, 712, 706, 

719, 679) engrossing .3120 

Revision Com. report (Int. 697, 31), engross¬ 
ing .3195 

Revision Com. report (Int. 145), engross- 

,ing . . . . ... . .3466-3467 

Revision Com. report (Int. 715, 711, 290), 

engrossing.3467 

Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate..3498- 

3499 

Revision Com. report (Int. 385), amended.3505- 

3506 

Revision Com. report (Int. 716), amending.3533 
Revision Com. report (Int. 710, 711, 290, 

385), engrossing .3637 

Revision Com. report (Int. 712, 718), en¬ 
grossing .3760 

Revision Com. report (Int. 716), engross¬ 
ing .3761 

Revision C’om. report (Int. 708), engrossing.3771 
Revision Com. report (Int. 702, 706, 719, 7i5. 

721), engrossing .3863 

Revision Com. report (Int. 696), amend.3863 




























































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Page 

Revision Com. report (Int. 131), amend.. 3863- 

3864 

Revision Com. report (Int. 13, 696, 716, 713), 

engrossing.3912 

Revision Com. report (Int. 407, 714), engross¬ 
ing . 3977 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), amending. .. .4098 
Revision Com. report (Int. 725, 702), engross¬ 
ing .4098 

Revision Com. report (Int. 722).4115-4116 

Constitution, final draft, resol., report. .4172-4173 
Revision Com. report (Int. 702, 722), engross¬ 
ing .4173 

Revision Com. report (Int. 720), engrossing. .4286 
Revision Com. rep. re final draft Constitution. 

4307-4313 

Revision Com. rep. final draft of Constitution, 

4313-4348, 4357-4370 


Mr. Root. 

Speech of acceptance.12-15 

Rules, adoption of, discussion. 20 

Minor officers of convention.. 24 

Seats, choosing . 26 27 

Clerk to President, appointing. 31 

Delegates former conventions, inviting. 36 

Amendments, proposed, titles, contents. 59 

Committee reference, certain amend., discus. 64 
State Printing Board, report, submitting. 
Newspaper reporters, convention, desig., etc. 69 

Convention white book, preparation.. 82 

Supplies for members. 86 

Stenographers to convention, discussion.... 86-88 
Proposed amendments, duplicate copies....89, !)0 

Committee reference, discussion...93,94 

Amendments, printed copies, distribution... 105 
Committee announcements to be sent to 

desk.114—] 10 

Documents, amendments, etc., printed, dis.. 131 
Sinking funds, state, data, discussion... .139, 140 
Documents, etc., additional copies, statement 142 
Proposed amendments, introd., time limit, 

discussion .160-163 

Committee reference, discussing. 184 

Committee reference, discussion. .. 186 

Committee reference, amendments re — juries, 

discussion .189, 190 

Memorial, N. Y. State Chamber of Commerce 194 
Memorial for biennial sessions of legis.. 195,196 

Bar Association, state, communication. 1^6 

Public School No. 22, Queens, N. Y. city, 

communication. 196 

Registration, citizens working in Washing¬ 
ton, communication.196, 19'^ 

Voting, inmates of institutions, commun. 197, 198 
Military service. Friends, Society of, commun. 198 

Verdict of %, communication.198,199 

Committee reference, certain amendments .201, 202 

Journal, etc., printing, number. 204 

Keys, for desks, statement. 208 

Printing, amend., etc., additional copies.... 232 
Magna Charta celebration, address, discus¬ 
sion ..*.237, 238 

Resolutions, presentations in duplicate. 248 

Magna Charta celebration, committee...!.. 256 
Amendments, amending, new print numbers 258 
Court of appeals, communication, data. .258,259 


Page 

Committees, powers of, statement. 263 

Committee reference, Int. 322, discussion... 270 
Error page 263 of Record, correcting... .281, 282 
Memorial, South Bronx Property Owners 

Association.299 

Memorial, Albany Society of Civil Engineers 299 

Memorial, Triumph Hose Co.301, 302 

Memorial, suffrage, Wm. S. Meyer. 302 

Memorial, Society of Friends. 302 

Memorial, Woman Suffrage Ass’n. 302 

Memorial, Legislative Index Publishing Co. 311 

Memorial, Herkimer Co. supervisors.321,322 

Memorial (Professtional), Engineers of Roch¬ 
ester .321, 322 

Comptroller, data re county treasurers, fees, 

etc.’..322, 323 

Resolutions, committee report, ruling.347-348 

Communication from governor, lieut.-gov. ... 372 
Tax com. proposed amend,, introd., pro¬ 
cedure .393-394 

Memorial, compulsory vaccination, introd.. .. 397 

Memorial, Leonard. Klaber. 397 

Memorial, Charles M. Higgins, vaccination. . 412 
Memorial, N. Y. State Federation of Labor. . 412 

Memorial, S. B. Clarke. 412 

Memorial, Interdenominational Com. on N. Y. 

City education . . 412 

Committee reports, procedure. 415 

Amendment, Int. 289, com. report, procedure. 417 
Communications, State Tax and Transporta¬ 
tion Reform Association, Johnstown Com¬ 
mon Council, Voters League of New York, 

Union League Club of New York.443-444 

Communications, Indian Game Bird Society, 

Society of Friends . 444 

Memorial, Middletown Common Council, vot¬ 
ing machines . 457 

Memorial, city of Middletown, home rule... 457 
Memorial, Agricultural Organizations...... 467 

Bonds, canals, etc., data, communication.... 470 

Memorial, Intra-City Civic League. 481 

Legis., two houses, resol. and rep., ruling on 

procedure. 486 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion. .495-498 
Memorials: Fort Orange Court No. 55, J. 
Noble Hayes, Citizens Union, Society for 
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Charles 
M. Dennison, H. F. Foster, Louis J. Altkrug, 
Committee for State Police. 506 

Memorials: N. Y. County Com. National Pro¬ 
gressive Party, L. I. Baptist Association, 

Wm. Hemstreet, N. Y. Board of Trade and 
Transportation . 510 

Claims against State, communication from 
Attorney General.; .. .. 532 

Completed work of Convention, time limit.568-570 
Memorials: Cities of Middletown, Tonawanda, 
Plattsburgh, Hudson, Port Jervis, Oswego, 
Ogdensburg and Cortland; and Baptist 
Ministers Conference, Murphy Grange 

Patrons of Husbandry.697-698 

Committee reports on amendments, pro¬ 
cedure . 701 

Amendments, introduced by com., procedure. 

704-705 

Alemorial: City of Beacon.. 743 

Memorials: Newburgh, New Rochelle. 747 

Claims, Court, data . 747 




























































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Page 


Memorials: Fulton, Xortli Tonawanda. . .. 733 

Memorial: City of Albany. 775 

Communications, Secretary of State. 789 

Communication, X. Y. County Comm’r of 

records . 789 

Memorials: From the cities of Albany, Sche¬ 
nectady and village of Mechanicsville and 

Frank W. Grinnell. 790 

Communications, requests for hearings, state¬ 
ment re . 804 


Memorials: Lockport, Batavia, Syracuse, Co¬ 
hoes Board of Trade and Glens Falls Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. 811 

Memorials: Canandaigua, Cohoes Chamber 


of Commerce, Tonawanda Citizens’ Meeting.813- 

814 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate.841-842 

Communication from State Engineer and Sur¬ 
veyor . 848 

Committees, opinions, disposition, procedure.850- 

851 

Memorials: Kingston, home rule. 856 

Memorials: Cities of Oneonta, Corning and 
Hornell, and from citizens of Cortland and 

Elmira . 875 

Amendment (Int. 704), printing and laying 

over . 891 

Committee work, statement of chairman, re¬ 
questing . 892 

Memorials: Johnstown, Oneonta and Albany 
common councils; representatives of city 
government and citizens of Fulton; confer¬ 
ence of citizens of Gloversville, citizens of 

city of Oneida. 894 

Memorials: From citizens and civic organiza¬ 
tions of Binghamton. 927 

Communication from Kings County Records 

Commissioner .927-928 

Memorials: Common council Lackawanna, 

Ithaca, Niagara Falls, Little Falls; cham¬ 
ber of commerce of Syracuse, Rome; from 

mayor of Jamestown. 962 

Memorials: Yonkers common council and 

Rome citizens, home rule. 972 

Memorials: Communication, J. W. Wads¬ 
worth, Jr., governor’s term.972-973 

Memorials: Communication from N. Y. City 

police commissioner .1133 

Memorials: Rochester Chamber of Commerce.1035 
‘National Committee for Mental Hygiene.1035 
Memorials: Communication superintendent of 

public works. 1015 

Memorials: Utica Department of Legislation. 1015 
Work of Convent’n, progress, statement re!. .1033 

Adjourning, hour of.1247 

Convention work, speeding up, statement re... 

1359-1360 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1399, 1406, 

1408, 1412 

Memorial, Medico-Legal Society, surrogates.. 1435 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.1893 

Adjournment, motion for, effect of. .1998 

Third reading calendar, passage of bills, 

statement . 2201 

Revision Com. discharge, ruling.». ..2201 

^Memorial: Buffalo Chamber of Commerce re 
canals .2234 


Page 

Debate, upon 3rd reading, statement.2281 

Third reading of amendments, procedure. ..2302, 

2304-2305 

Third reading, recommitting, ruling.2342 

Division of question, ruling .2351 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2453-2457 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2581-2584, 

2781-27S2 


Quorum, lack of, rule 61, ruling.2672-2673 

Memorials: Pierrepont White, College of the 

Church of Christ .2798 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.2993-2994 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate ..3018 

Previous question, ruling.3031-3032 

Memorials: Conference of Mayors, Rochester 

City Clerk, WTlliam McAdoo.3037-3038 

Pairing, ruling .3045 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, state¬ 
ment .3066 


Memorials, Congregational Churches of Chi¬ 
cago .3276 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3381, 

3475, 3478, 3489, 3491, 3495 
Memorial, Spanish War Veterans Civil Serv¬ 
ice Ass’n .3498 

INlemorial, Committee of Engineers.3498 

Amendment (Int. 291), amending.^.. .3532-3533 
Amendment (Int. 716), revision amendments.3717 
Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate. .3750-3751, 

3756-3757 

Telegram, re operation on Mr. Tanner.3760 

Adverse report, civil service, effect of.. 3806-3807 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .4019-4022, 

4031-4032 

Committee records, statement re.4172 

Final draft of Constitution, vote on as a 

whole, ruling.4370-4371 

Vote explaining, time limit for, ruling.4374 

Excuse from voting, rolling.4375 

Final draft of Constitution, vote upon, ruling.4399 
Final draft of Constitution, vote, effect of. . .4403 
Final draft of Constitution, printing by Secy. 

of State, statement. .4405 

Indexing, Record, Documents, etc.4448-4449 

Signing new Constitution, order of.4452 

Committee to notify Secy, of State of time 

for delivery of revised Constitution.4453 

Statement re census of 1915 from Secv. of 

State .4453-4455 

Delivery of Convention documents and papers 

to Commissioner of Education..■. . .4456 

Delivery of Revised Constitution to Secy, of 

State .4456 

Valedictory .4457-4460 


Mr. Rosch. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.148,183, 

361, 380 

Messenger, L. V. Gardner, transferring. 476 

Absence, explaining by Mr. Berri.1915 

Excuse for, requesting.1917, 1918 

Absence, illness .1953 

County gdvernment (Int. 721), vote explain¬ 
ing .3959-3961 


Mr. Ryan. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.. 266,267 


Snanish War Veterans, memorial.1319 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1793 




































































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Page 

Presence, recording .3281-3282 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3458 

Correction, page 3458 of Kecord.3979, 3987 


Mr. Ryder. 

Highways (Int. 31) debate...3128 

Excuse, requesting .3282 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. .. .3560-3561 


Mr. Sanders. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.173, 174, 

185, 339, 407-408 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1160-liol 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1544 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1970 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1995-1997, 

2022 2057 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2825, 2861, 

2877-2878 

•Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate.2897-2898 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3092, 3104-3112, 

3129, 3132 

County government (Int. 721), debate. . 3730- 

3731, 3741 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd. reading.3835, 3837 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate. .. .4239-4242, 

4252 


Mr. Sargent. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.215.267, 

325, 358 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion. 952 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2447-2448 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3056 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 
passage, debate.4116-4117 


Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Rules, adoption, discussion. 19 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .57, 188, 216, 

336, 359, 376, 682 
Proposed amendments, introd., time limit.164, 165 
Woman suffrage, amendment No. 4, amending. 168 

Legislature, composition, discussion.345,350, 

351, 487, 502 

Amendment, Int. No. 4, amending.468. 682 

Reapportionment, discussion. 575 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 692 

Amendment, Int. 215, moving.694-695, 707, 

776, 902 

Amendment, Int. 214, amending. 748 

Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion.755-756 

Amendment (Int. 4), discussion. 797 

State conventions, Int. 4, discussion.848-849. 

850 

Amendment, Int. 214, placing at foot of cal¬ 
endar .902, 915-921 


Page 

Official oath, Int. 88 , discussion .. 934 

Excuse for Mr. Potter, requesting. 962 

Education, state control, Int. 698, discussion. 984, 
987, 993-994, 1080, 1093, 1094 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1048, 1800 

Taxation, Int. 679, prtg. amendm. offered. .. 1130 
.-amendment, Int. 4, statement re moving. .. 1154 

Conservation Dept, Int. 708.1029 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 708), prog¬ 
ress ...1356 

Int. 711, special order.1357 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate'..1362 

Com. of Whole report (Int. 708), progress, 

amended .1430, 1470 

Committee of WTiole report (Int. 708), 3rd 

reading.1627 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1546-1548, 1554- 

1555, 1562 

Registration (Int. 709), debate limiting. ... 1595, 

1612-16;6 

State Budget (Int. 709), limiting debate.... 1667 
State Budget (Int. 709), amending debate. .1675- 

1676, 1689, 1691, 1723 
Registration (Int. 711), moving, debate. ... 1726, 
1733-1734, 1742, 1748-1750, 1752, 1753 
Committee of W'hole report (Int. 711), disa¬ 
greeing .1759 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. No. 7C6L debate... 2221 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading. 2280 

State budget (Int. 709), vote explaining. .2317- 

2318 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ) debate.2951 

Public Service Com, (Int. 706) debate.2986, 

3004-3005, 3009, 3012 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3065, 3068 

Legislators’ salaiy (Int. 697), debate..3078, 3084 

3085-3087, 3089 

Future amendments (Int. 715). debate.3147, 3149 

3185-3186. 3189-3100 

State d’epts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3306, 

3400-3401, 3413, 3452-3454, 
3459, 3465-3466, 3477-3478 
Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate 

3503-3504 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3551-3553 

Taxation (Int. 679), vote explaining.3576 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading. . 

3587-3588, 3595 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.8629 
Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. .. .3670 
Conservation (Int. 708), error in printing.. 

3681-3682 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate. .3743, 3745- 

3749, 3753, 3755 

Claim bills (Int. 214), recommitting.3761 

Snecial orders calendar, reading.3772 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate 

3797-3800, 3803 

Judiciary, conservation (Int. 718, 708), vote, 

explanation .3862 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. . .3992-3993, 

aqq4_aoQf; 4088 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate..'.'..’.4075 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), vote, explain.. .4186 
Final draft of Constitution, exnlaininof vote. .4391 
Revisod Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate.4415-4417, 4423, 4426-4427 

























































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209 


Mr. M. Saxe. Page 

Stenographer to convention, nominating.... 10 

Great charter, celebration for. 3*i 

Committee reports, contents, discussion.... 78 
Taxation com. meetings, inviting public. ..97, 
Taxation, constitutional provisions, pam¬ 
phlet, printing .144-146 

Great charter celeb., discharge com., notice.. 152 
Proposed amendments, introduction.. 154, 261, 306 

448 


Page 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .4003, 4008, 


4019 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4074 

Food products, inspection (Int. 131), vote ex¬ 
plaining .4113 

Tax article, effect on farmers, statement. .. .4167 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4391 
Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate.4425 


Tax exemptions, charitable institutions, 

memorial. 221 , 222 , 223 

Printing, records, documents, number, dis¬ 
tribution .231,232 

Magna Charta celebra., rules report, dis¬ 
cussion . 236 

Error page 222 record, correction. 246 

Magna Charta day, announcement...*.. 25f) 

Magna Charta cele., time, etc., com. report.. 273 
Recess over Decoration Day, discussion.... 274 
Committee reference. Introductory 378 ..308.3(9 
Great char, celeb., committee report. .340, 353, 364 
Tax Com. prop, amend., introd., discuss. 39(>-391 
Committee reports, procedure upon, discus.. 417 
Great charter celebration, addresses, print¬ 
ing resolutions .447-448 

Taxation Com. amendment, introduction of.. 450 
Amendment, Int. No. 264, changing reference. 476 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion. 512 

Reapportionment (Tnt. 673) vote, explaining. 658 
Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing . 702 

Extra compen., Int. 289, debate. 753 

Taxation, amendment, Int. 679, reporting 

amended. 871 

Amendment, Int. 679, extra copies, printing. . 890 

Taxation Com., progress, statement re. 901 

Taxation, Int. 679, preliminary discussion.948-957 
Taxation, Int. 679, moving, debate. .981, 997-1012 
1037, 1043-1061, 1108, 1118-1120, 1123-1125, 
1128-1130, 1154-1167, 1169-1173, 1175-1181, 
1184-1185, 1189-1190, 17^0, 1787-1797, 

1800-1801 


Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1198-1199 


Taxation, Int. 679, laying over.1030 

Finances, state debts, "int. 705, discussion. . . . 1256 

Militia (Int. 531), debate.1530 

.State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1607 

Taxation (Int. 679), amending, debate. ...2126- 


2127, 2130 


(Int. 679) Revision Com. discharging.2200 

State budget (Int. 709), vote explaining. .. .2318 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2700-2701 

Int. 679, amending.3038 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate. 

Future amend. (Int. 715), debate.3164-3165 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 716), prog¬ 
ress .*.3268 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 716), prog- 

i-ess .3324 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 716), prog¬ 
ress .3363. 3439, 3466 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 716), 3rd 

reading .3496 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage. ...3559, 3563- 

3564, 3567-3569 

Absent electors (Tnt. 711), final passage-.3660 

Floor privilege for Job E. Hedges.3726 

State depts., reorg. (Tnt. 716), vote explain- 
ing . 


Mr. Schoonhut. 

Spanish War veterans, memorials.1247 


Mr. Schurman. 

Sessions of, convention, time, discussion... 78 

Adjournment over Friday.94,95 

Taxation, constitutional provisions, i)am- 

phlet, printing. 116 

Education com., laws, print article 9. .150 

Proposed amendments, introduction.156,244, 

245, 362, 844-845 

Proposed amendments, introd., time limit, 

discussion .162,163 

Magna Charta, celebration, speaker.236-238 

Const’l conv. comm’n suppl. report, printing. 287 

Committee reference, suggesting. 358 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . . •..537, 538, 588-592 

Amendment, Int. 276, recommitting. 694 

Amendment (Int. 579), reporting amended. 801 
Impeachment bv legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate.840-841 

Recess over Saturdaj^ July 24, discussion... 879 

Education Com., progress, statement re. 897 

Amendment, Int. 704, calling up.897-898 

Education state function, Int. 698, moving de¬ 
bate .928, 936-948, 1070 

Amendment, Int. 698, moving. 981 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1003, 1052 

Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion, 

debate.1075, 1087. 1098, 1100-1104, 1105 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1212 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, vote, explaing. 1227 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate.1268 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1412, 1469, 

1521 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1548 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate. 1610-1611, 1625- 

1627 

Ventilation, Convention chamber.1662 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.1819-1823, 1834 

Education (Tnt. 698). amending.1862 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.\ . 1943-1944, 1971 

1976-1977 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate..2183-2184, 

2216 

Education (Int. 698), final passage, debate.2250, 


2253-2254 

Education, Int. 698, amending.2382-2383 

Attendance, August 21, statement re.2796 

Imiiacv Commission (Int. 371) debate. .2808-2809 
Home"Rule (Tut. 712) debate.2846-2848 


\'oters, literacy test (Int. 686 ) debate. 

2910-2911, 2913-2914 






























































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Page 

Public Service Com. (Int, 706) debate.3001 

Convention sessions, changing.3038 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3071 

Highwavs (Int. 31) debate.3098-3099, 

3130-3131 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate... .3169- 

3170, 3184, 3193 

State depts. (Int. 716), debate. .3229, 3300-3301, 

3438 

Adjourning Saturday afternoon.3282 

Governor’s birthday congratulations.3324 

Excuse for, requesting.3331 

Excuse for Mr. Whipple, requesting.3364 


Education (Int. 698), debate on 3rd reading 

3515-3516 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading...3589, 

3595 

Amendment (Int. 720), minority report -with¬ 
holding .3642 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3644 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 3rd 

reading .3687,3699 

Floor privilege for Mr. Garfield.3717 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate.. 3779- 

3780, 3786 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate.4015 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4075 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate ....4125-4126 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4139 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.....4192 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4391 
Report of Com. to notify Secy, of State.... 4456 
Appointment on Com. of notification to Secy, 
of State .!. 4453 


Mr. Sears. 

Excuse for Mr. Clinton, requesting. 54 

Excuse for Mr. J. L. O’Brian, requesting... 274 

Proposed amendments, introduction.298,299, 

386 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 407 


Water, dringing, for Convention, com. rep. 418-419 
•'mmany memorial, printing, com. report. 438 
Prisoners, pardons, data, com. report, adop.. 450 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. . .1280 

Excuse, requesting.1318 

Privileges' (Int. 701) debate.1852-1855 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2440-2448 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2507. 2569, 

2.599, 2628-2629, 2728-2729 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2964-2967 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3803 

Home rule (Int. 712), vote explaining.3831 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage.3847-3848 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 722), prog¬ 
ress .3911 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 407, 714), 

3rd reading.3911 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 722), prog¬ 
ress .4011 

Committee of Whole report (Int*. 722), 3rd 
reading . .4034 


Mr. Sharpe. Page 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1800 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate..3185-3186 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage-3559, 3563, 

3570 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate...4032 


Mr. Sheehan. 

Rules, amendments, discussion . 42 

Resol. of sympathy to D. Nicoll. 48 

Proposed amendments, introduction .57,216 

Amendment No. 57, reference, changing.... 104 
Sinking fund bonds, etc., resol., discussion. . . 139 
Proposed amendments, suggestions for, dis¬ 
cussion . 242 

Legis., composition, discussion.346, 496, 502 

Committee reports, procedure.415-417 

Water, drinking, for Con. com. rep., discus... 424 
Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s rep., dis¬ 
cussion . 549-557 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 687 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.910, 911 


Com. of the Whole rept., Int. 699, 679.1063-1064 
Taxation, Int. 679, discuss. . 1124, 1156, 1168, 1169 
State Budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1649-1651, 1716, 

1724 

State Budget (Int. 709), printing amend¬ 


ments offered .1689 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2091-2093, 2119 


Education (Int. 698), final passage, debate. 2250^- 

2253 

Impeachment (Int. 291), amending, debate.2340, 
2341, 2348-2349, 2350-2351, 2352-2353 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2851-2855, 

2872, 2881, 2882 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate.2929, 

2950, 2952 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3081 

Excuse for, requesting.3303 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3403, 

' 3416-3419,3490-3493 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree.3763 

Conservation (Int. 708), vote explaining. ...3814 
Home rule (Int. 712), vote explaining. .3831-3832 

Occupational disease (Int. 714), debate.3897 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3997, 4011- 
4012, 4019, 4021-4023, 4025, 4028-4029 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 722), dis¬ 
agree .4034 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), vote, explain’g. .4187 

Adi'ournment, Sept. 4.4228 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4262 

Vote explaining, time limit.4374 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote, 

4392-4394 

Address to the People, discussion of.. . .4438-4439 
Resolution of thanks to Vice-Presidents 
Shurman and O’Brien.4457 


Mr. Shipman. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.154,201, 

284, 360 

Education, state central, Int. 698, debate.982-988, 
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211 


Page 

Privilege (Int. 701), vote, explaining.2161 

Education (Int. 698), amendment.2253 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2510-2511, 

2521, 2557 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2394-2395 

Excuse, requesting .2576 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate.2815 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ) debate. .2945-2046 

Poll call, presence, recording.3278 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .3397-3398, 

3426-3427, 3441 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain..3955 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4394 


Mr. Slevin. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 172 

Excuse for !Mr. F. Martin, requesting.2656 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4394 


Mr. A. E. Smith. 

Seats, convention chamber, choosing.25, 26 

Great charter celebration . 32 

N. Y. city government, survey, \ppropria... 35 

Excuse for Mr. Austin, requesting. 166 

Proposed amendments, introduction.181,182, 

224, 282, 283, 286, 375 
Printing, amendments, etc., addi’l copies.... 232 

Legis., composition, discussion.345-347, 351- 

352, 501 

Committee reference, suggesting. 358 

Committee reports, procedure upon, discus.416-417 
Water, drinking, for Con., com. report, discus. 424 
Leg., two houses, com. resol., postponing.... 431 
Reapportionment, X. Y. City’s representation, 

debate . . ..610-620 

Convention sessions, jNIondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion .685,688-689 

Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing .7 00—7 02 

Emergency message, Int. 78, debate.763-766, 769, 

771 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, discussion.836-837, 838-840 

Amendment, Int. 315, com. memo., statement 

re. 873 

Education, state control, Int. 698, discussion, 
debate ...995-997, 1089-1091, 1092, 1095, 1096 

1105 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1061 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion. . . .1125, 1129, 1130 
1156, 1157, 1158, 1159, 1801-1802 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion. 1210-1214 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discuss.. 1278, 1285 
1286, 1288-1289, 1291, 1300-1301, 1302 
Registration (Int. 711), debate. . 1549-1551, 1552- 

1553, 1555 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate. 1589-1594, 1596- 
1612, 1614, 1619-1622, 1645, 1660, 1685, 
1686-1687, 1689-1690, 1692-1696, 1704, 
1708, 1711, 1713, 1719-1721, 1725, 1726 
State Budget (Int. 709). amending.... 1673-1674 
Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1746-1748, 1751, 

1756 


Page 

Privilege (Int. 701),' debate.2108-2111 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2180-2187 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading.2279, 2281-2282, 2284 

State budget (Int. 709), final passage....2301- 

2304, 2309 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2342, 2350, 2353 


Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2473 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2532-2533 

Excuse for, requesting.2658 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2822-2823, 


2835-2840, 2843-2846, 2852, 2858-2861, 
2864, 2867-2869, 2872-2873, 
2879-2881, 2884 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ) debate.2908-2909, 

2946-2947, 2952 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2977-2979, 

2982-2986 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate. 3002, 3005 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate .3019, 3021-3023, 

3025-3026, 3027, 3028-3030 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ) dis¬ 


agree .3'060, 3061 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate..3083 


Future amendments (Int. 715) debate. .. .3140- 

3141, 3144 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate. .. .3168, 

State depts. (Int. 716), debate..3222-3237,’3343, 
3361-3363, 3408, 3432-3434, 3437-3438, 
3443-3444, 3449-3451, 3473, 3480-3482. 

3484-3485, 3486-3489, 3492 


Presence, recording .3277 

Proposed amendment, introd. of.3280 


Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .,.3542-3547, 3554-3556 

Taxation (Int. 679). final passage. ...3562-3563 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3618-3619, 3627-3629 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate. .3747, 3749- 

3752, 3755-3757 

Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree.3763, 3765-3768 

Conservation (Int. 708), amending.3759 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), debate 

3880-3882 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), amendment offer¬ 
ing .4028 

Amendments (Int. 193, 194, 405), suspend 

rules, notice .4157 

Food products, inspection (Int. 131), debate..4107 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 

passage, debate .4124, 4127-4128 

Rules, suspension of, notice.4157 

.Amendment (Int. 194), laying aside.4269 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate. .4269-4274. 4277, 

4282, 4285 

Living wage (Int. 193), discharge com.4296 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4395 


Mr. E. N. Smith. 

Seats, convention chamber, choosing. 25 

Proposed amenments, introduction.. 110, 122. 155, 
156, 217, 262, 358. 361,405 
Proposed amendments, introd,, time limit... 164 



















































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Page 

Journals, etc., printing, number.'...206, 2U7 

Committee reference, Int. Nos. 21 , 55, 248 

and 348 . 312 

Committee reference, amending Inc. 55.... 313 

Amendment, Int. No. 511, amending. 510 

Agricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion. .525-528, 

717, 722 

Conservation Com., progress, statement re. . . 899 
Education, state func., Int. 698, debate. 1076-1078 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1341-1346, 

1347, 1348, 1394 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1944, 1947 

1074, 1987, 2013, 2049-2027, 2062 
tfCgislators’ salary (Int. 697), amend....;.2287 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2599-2600, 

2619, 2635 

Excuse for Mr. Ford, requesting.2654 

Judiciarv (Int. 718) debate... .2701, 2705-2706, 
2730-2731, 2738, 2740-2741 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2978, 2985 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate .3029 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate. .3088-3089 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3106 

Roll call, absence, explaining.3278 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage,.. .3667 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. ..3907-3910 

State •enumeration, date.3988 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate...3991-3992, 
3995-3998, 4000-4003, 4005-400*8, 
4015, 4018-4019, 4023 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), amending... .4119- 

4121 

Rill of Rights (Int. 720), debate... .4246-4248, 

4250-4251, 4263 


Mr. R. B. Smith. 

Stationery, supplies forCconvent'on, vesol.. 32 
Proposed amendments, introduction. . .75, 92, 123, 

. 135, 149, 185, 225, 244, 253, 262, 271, 

3^6, 307, 317, 327, 338, 382, 383, 461 
Telephone facilities, re-arrange, resolution.. 147 

Excuse for sergeant-at-arms...... 191 

Amendments, printed copies, arrival. 249 

Amendment, Int. 55, amending.312,313 

Legislature, composition, discussion. . 347, 487-489 
Amendments, Int. Nos. 290 and 275, amend¬ 
ing . 460-461 

Amendment, Int. Nos. 257 and 290, amend¬ 
ing . 508 

Amendment, Int. 212, amending. 683 

Amendments, introduction by com., pro¬ 
cedure . 704 

Amendment, Int. 289, moving. 706 

Extra compen., public officers, contractors, 

etc., amendment, Int. 289, debate.724-726' 

Telephone operator, leave. 730 

.Amendment, Int. 624, discussion. 738 

Extra compen., Int. 289, debate. ...750-751, 757, 

758, 815 

Amendment, Int. 290, debate.771-772 

Amendments, Int. 275 and 291, moving. 776 

Teleplione operator, excusing, resol. 785 

Laws complete in themselves, Int. 275, debate.824- 

825 

Impeachment by legislature, convening for, 

Int. 291, debate .828-829, 830 


Page 

Governor’s term, J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., letter, 

discussion . 974 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1007 

Amendment, Int. 291, amending.1016 

Amendment, Int. 254, amending.1017 

Governor, vacancy, Int, 385, debate, 3d rdg.1217 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), amending. .. 1414 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1418 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1543 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1611, 1659-1660, 

1712, 1716 

Amendment (Int. 254), amending.1666 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.1672 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1995, 1997, 

2065-2072, 2076 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2339-2340', 2351 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate'.2624, 2755-2757 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.,..2837-2838, 

2842, 2872-2874, 2876 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate .3025-3027 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate..34.58, 3460, 

3469, 3492 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading .3639, 3644 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate on 3rd 

reading. 3683 

Countv government (Int. 721), debate..3733, 

3737, 3740-.3741 

Legislative powers (Int. 696), debate. 3749, 3752- 

3758 


Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree .3770 

Governor, term, salarv (Int. 702), debate. .3786- 

3788, .3791 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading .3840 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3955 


Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate..3997-3998, 

4006, 4016, 4029 

Reapportionment (Int. 722). vote, exr)laining.4191 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4252, 4254, 4258 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4396 


Mr. T. F. Smith. 

Besolution, deatn of newspaper reporter.^.. 320 

Proposed amendments, introduction. 335,359 

Committee reference, suggesting. 359 

Memorial, jury trials, taxation,'elections, 369-371 
Reapportionment (Int. 673) vote, explain¬ 
ing .658-660 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2531, 2791 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate.2811 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ) debate...... 29.37 

state de])ts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3381 

Home rule (Int. 712), vote, explanation_3977 


Mr. Stanchfield. 

Proposed amen«iments. introduction of. 325 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1657-1659 

Taxation (Int. 679) debate.1794-1795, 1798 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.’.2226 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2414 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate_'.2492-2494, 































































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213 


Page 

2490, 2498, 2504, 2511-2512, 2521, 
2524-2525, 2531, 2580, 2585-2580 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 080, 713) 

progress .2920 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 080) 

progress .2934 

Committee of Whole report (Iiit. 710) 

progress .2904 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 719, 713) 

to third reading.3030 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 080) 

favorable .3030 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 710, 700) 

to third reading.3030-3031 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3090 

Excuse for Mr. 5l. J. O^Brien, requesting. ..3199 
State depts. (Int. 710), debate. .3237-3238, 3353, 

3490 

Education (Int. 098), debate on 3rd reading.3523 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3590 


Mr. Standart. 

Proposed amendments, introduction of... 111, 112 

Committee reference, Int. 280. 325 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 700), amendment 

offering.2227 

Absence, explaining .2490 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2743 

Correction, page 3975 of Record.3987 


Mr. Steinbrink. 

Proposed amendments, introduction. . .73, 90, 107, 
108, 153, 181, 200, 282, 304, 305, 353, 374, 

399-400 

Document No. 1, printing additional ropies. 100 
Official referees, first, second departments, 

data re, resol.100,101 

Error page 100 record, correcting.119,120 

Taxation, constitutional provisions, pam¬ 
phlet, printing .146, 147 

Committee reference, suggesting. 358 

Tax Com. proposed amend., introd., discussion. 387 
Registration, absent electors, Int. 43, 91, 127, 

247, 285 and 373, moving, debate..902, 903-915 

Excuse, requesting.1017 

Registration (Int. 7II), debate.. 1552-1553, 1554, 

1727 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 706), 

progress.2152, 2198, 2232 

Extra compel!. (Int. 289), vote, explaining. .2327 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 706), re¬ 
commit .2356 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, de¬ 
bate .2340 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2413 

Judiciary (Int. 718^ debate.2499-2502, 

2599, 2628, 2637-2640, 2642-2647 
Excuse for Mr. Linde and Mr. Reeyes, re¬ 
questing .2655 

Correction, page 2639 of Record.2798 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate. 

2799-2802, 2814 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2837 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3057 


Page 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3312 

3422, 3474 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd readirig.3584- 

3585 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.361G- 

3617, 3619, 3627-3628 
Absent electors (Int. 7II), final passage. . .3668- 

3669 

Goyernor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3788- 

3789 

Reapportioninent (Int. 722), debate.4030 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate. .. .4076, 4195,. 
4198, 4200, 4208-4209, 4211, 4218-4219, 4252- 

4253, 4258-4259, 4264 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining yote.4397 


Mr. Stimson 

Sessions, convention, time of, discussion .... 89 

Adjourn over Friday. 94,95 

Amendment No. 46, reference, correct, error. 103 
Amendment No. 19, reference, error, cor.... 103 

Canal bonds, data. 138 

Committee reference, suggesting, certain 

amend. 155 

Committee reference, Int. Nos. 209 and 315.. 281 

Committee reference, suggesting.283, 284 

Witnesses for convention committees, ex¬ 
penses, resol. 292^ 

Committee reference, Int. No. 326. 319 

Proposed amendments, introduction.376, 377, 

476-477, 891, 1134-1136, 2238 

Committee reference, suggesting.360, 363 

Printing, com. hearing, as document. 398 

Committee reference, suggesting.402,403 

Leg., two houses, com. resol., discus. .430-431,489, 

494-495 

Committee reference, Int. Nos. 455, 470, 

changing. 447 

Amendment, Int. No. 683, changing reference. 476 

Amendment, Int. 673. vote, explanation. 675 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 689 

Sinking fund data, comptroller’s, printing. . 740 

Amendment, Int. 692, amending. 748 

Emergency message, abolish, Int. 78, debate. .820- 

821 

Governor’s term (Int. 702) discussion. 868 

inance Com. report, state debts. 891 

Finance Com., progress, statement re. 895 

Amendment. Int. 705, calling up.. ..’. 898' 

State debts, Int. 705, special order for Aug. 5. 975 
Finance Com. rept, Int. 709, submittg. 1134-1150 
Finances, state del3ts, Int. 705, moving, de¬ 
bate ..1251-1272, 1274, 1282,-1283, 1284, 1286, 
1289, 1290, 1291, 1298-1302, 1306, 1309, 1311- 

1313 

Correction, document 35.1434 

State budget (Int. 709), debate.. 1567-1590, 1601, 
1618 ,1625, 1636, 1660-1661, 1685-1687, 
1689, 1690-1692, 1700, 1705, 1706, 1707, 
1716, 1717-1723, 1726 


State Budget (Int. 709), amending.IfiT^ 

Budget (Tut. 709). amending.1999-2000 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2104-2105 


Communication from N. M. Butler, budget, 

2236-2237 























































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Page 

Communication, E. tR. Brown, short ballot, 

statement.2236-2237 

Appropriations, local (Int. 719), Com. re¬ 
port .2238 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .2289 

State debts (Int. 705), final passage.2290 

State budget (Int. 709), final passage.... 2300- 

2301, 2305 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.3445 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2563, 2579, 

2629-2630 

Excuse for Mr. Parsons, requesting.2659 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2755, 2757- 

2758, 2760 

Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate. .2895-2896, 2998- 


2900 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719) 

debate .3013-3022, 

3025-3026, 3028-3029 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3093-3094, 

3097—3099 

State depts. (Int. 716), debate..3223-3224, 3227 


3229-3230, 3233, 3255, 3353-3363, 3376, 3403, 
3406-3407, 3445-3447, 3451, 3463, 3482, 3486 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading..3591, 

3598 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3623-3624 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3643-3644 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate on 

3rd reading .3682 

Appropriations (Int. 719), debate on 3rd 

reading.3684-3686 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3728 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate..3782- 

3783, 3785, 3789 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading .3836, 3838-3840 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), amending. . . .3862 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3888 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. . .4005, 4031 

Canal board (Int. 725), deljate.4052-4053 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4196, 4198, 

4200, 4228 

Adjournment September 4. 4229 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate.4422-4423 

Committee to aid 1916 Legislature, resol.. ..4450 

Mr. Stowell. 

Excuse for Mr. Cullinan, requesting. 218 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1381 

Judiciarv (Int. 718) debate.2511-2513, 

“^2590, 2606, 2610, 2613-2616, 2622, 2682- 
2683, 2684-2685, 2692, 2698, 2712- 

2713, 2794 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate.2815 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3084 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3105, 3110- 

3111, 3124-3125 

Excuse, requesting .3281 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3438, 3454- 

3455, 3459, 3465,'3471 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4204-4206, 

4216-4217, 4249 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3795- 

3796 


Mr. Tanner. Page 

Secretary to convention, nominating . 15 

Committees, clerks, etc., for. 24 

Excuse for Delancey Nicoll, requesting. 54 

Amendment, Int. 74, amending. 144 

Record, Journal, time of delivery.149,150 

Committee reference (Int. 291), sug. 253 

Committee reference (Int. 329), sug.... 271 

Committee reference (Int. 209), changing.... 280 
Committee reference, Int. Nos. 78, 184 and 
223. . , ...280,281 


Committee reference, Int. Nos. 136, 237... 281 
Committee reference, (Int. 343), suggesting. . 283 
Proposed amendments, introduction. .283, 284, 297, 

336, 378, 400, 866 , 1735 

Committee reference, amendments, Int. Nos. 

10, 25, 71, 121, 129, 154, 207, 220... .292-294 
Committee reference, amendments, Int. Nos. 

10, 25, 71, 129, 154, 207... 302 

Committee reference, suggestions, cer: amend. 308 
Committee reference, Int. Nos. 13, 211, 221. 323 

Stenographer, appointing, discussion. 324 

Committee reference (Int. 432), suggesting.. 326 
Committee reference, Int. Nos. 98, 131, 134, 

161, 194, 207, 249, 235, 269, 4, 327, sug¬ 
gesting . 332 

Tax Com. proposed amend., introd., discussion. 391 
Committee ref., Int. Nos. 435, 455, 458, 461, 

suggesting . 398 

Committee reference, (Int. 630), suggesting. 402 
Committee reference (Int. Nos. 194, 341, 460, 

541, 547, 558, 582, 601, 657, 658, 460} .... 408 

412, 436 

Committee ref., Int. Nos. 593, 647, changing.436 

Committee reference, Int. No. 270. 458 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion. .488-489 
Amendment, Int. No. 627, changing reference. 507 
Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion . 690 

Emergency message, Int. 78, debate. .767-768, 771 

Resolution of sympathy for Mr. Rhees. 776 

Amendment, Int. 550, moving.777. 902 

Amendment, Int. 360, reporting amended.784-785 
Amendment (Int. 385), reporting amended.. 801 
State conventions, Int. 4, Com. opinion in op¬ 
position, discussion .845, 849 

Committees, opinion of, reporting, disposition. 851 
Proposed amendment, introd. by committee.. 866 
Amendment, 'Int. 702, time of consideration, 

minority report, etc . 869 

Governor and Other State Officers Com. prog¬ 
ress, statement re. 894 

Amendment, Int. 550, placing at foot of cal¬ 
endar .902-903 

Amendment, Int. 706, reference on report by 
committee . 957 

Governor’s term, J. W. Wadsworth, Jr. letter, 
reference . 974 

Drafting clerk. Revision Com., appointing... 1016 
Gov. & Other State Officers Com. report 

(Int. 716) .1734-1735 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371) debate.2802, 

2813-2814 

Amendment (Int. 716) amending.3032 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686 ) dis¬ 
agree .3057 

Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3062-3064, 3068 



























































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Page 

State Depts. (Int. 716), debate. .3204-3223, 3226- 
3227, 3232-3233, 3237, 3247-3248, 3336, 3351, 
3397, 3400-3404, 3406-3407, 3419-3420, 3431, 
3436, 3441-3442, 3447-3448, 3450, 3452, 3456, 
3459, 3469-3470, 3480-3483, 3484-3485, 3489, 
3491-3492, 3494-3495, 3496 

Adjourning Saturday afternoon.3282-3283 

Short Ballot (Int. 716), vote, time of... ...3283 
Privilege of floor for William F. McCoombs. 3350 
Excuse; minority assistance, statement... .3498 
Operation upon, telegram re..3760 


Mr. Tierney. 

Proposed amendments, intrioductidn.. 122, 337, 381 

Petition, re judiciary, civil service. 331 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1206-1207 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.. 1444-1446 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2220 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2591-2597, 

2600-2603, 2701-2704, 2706, 2716 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate. 

3003-3004, 3013 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .045-3046, 3058 

Excuse for, requesting.3278 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716) debate. .3427-3428 
State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3956 


Mr. Tuck. 

Minor offices, clerks, etc., appointing.... 140,141 

Proposed amendments, introduction.156,157, 

254, 384, 406 

Excuse for Mr. Rhees, requesting. 256 

Amendment Int. 164, amending. 373 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 406 

Education, state func., Int. 698, discussion. . 1080 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, amdt. offering. 

1214-1215, 1216 

Excuse for Mr. Jones, requesting.1862 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2484 

Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate. 2899 

Canals (Int. 710) debate.2977, 2980, 2985 

Excuse for Mr. Curran, requesting.3038 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3101-3102, 

3106, 3113-3114, 3131-3132 
Excuse for Mr. Curran, requesting. .. .3153, 3159 

Excuse for Mr. Dick, requesting.3203 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3469 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3614 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4073-4074 


Mr. Unger. 

Convention sessions, place, flxing. 37 

Excuse for Mr. Shipman, requesting. 54 

Proposed amendments, introduction.. .68, 121,148 
Taxation, constitutional provisions, pam¬ 
phlet, printing. 146 

Amendment Int. 102, adding “ by request ”.. 246 
Assistant sergeant-at-arms, changing title... 299 

Lecfislature, composition, discussion.348, 495 

Water, drinking for Convention, com. report, 
discussion. 421 


Page 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate...627-628 

Amendment, Int. 136, amending. 698 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion... 915 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discussion. 942 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion...1112 

Tammany memorial, printing.. ..1032 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1540 

Spanish War veterans, pref., memorial.1565 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate, vote.2084, 2162 

Emergency message (Int. 78), vote_2354-2355 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2498-2500, 

2510, 2513, 2516, 2532 

Home Rule (712) debate.2881 

Cities, debts (Int. 713) debate.2891 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686) debate. 

2908, 2916 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree . 3058 

Excuse, requesting.•....3091 

.State Depts. (Int. 716), debate_3220, 3428- 

3429, 3457 

Civil Service, minority report.3506 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3565 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading.3594 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate..3784 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3801 

Judiciary (Int. 718), vote explaining.3823 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3877 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3956 

Reapportioninent (Int. 722), debate.4015 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4075-4077 

4193-4194, 4207 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4397-4398 


Mr. Vanderlyn. 

Proposed amendments, introduction.121,184, 

244, 380 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion .691-692 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1203-1204 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2399 

Excuse, requesting .2490 

Judiciary (Int. 718) debate.2495-2496, 

2603-2604 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706) debate.3011 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3072 

Excuse, requesting . 3091 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3104, 3111 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3452 

Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate. .3501 

Canals (Int. 710), laying aside.3680 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4398-4399 


Mr. Van Ness. 

Proposed amendments, introd. of, 


Mr. Wadsworth. 

President of convention, election, motion. . 
Secretary of convention, nom., discussion.. 
N. Y. city government, survey, appropria.. 


404 


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Page 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .271, 317, 318 

Com. of Wliole chairman, declining.749-750 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1174 

Charities Com. report offering.1190 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion. ... 1213 

Amendment, Int. 371, reporting.1248-1249 

Charities Com. report, submitting.1249^1250 

State Budget(Int. 709), debate.. 1600, 1609-1610, 

1686-1687, 1694, 1723 

State Budget (Int. 709), amending.1674 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate on 3rd 

reading .2282, 2289 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371), debate.2799, 2806 
Voters, literary test (Int. 686), debate.2949-2950 
Amendments (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3068 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate... 3071-3072 

State Depts. (Int. 716), debate.3228 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate. .. .3361, 
3400, 34^6-3449, 3472-3473 
Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate..3791 

Mr. Wafer. 

Excuse for, requesting .54-55 


Mr. Wagner. 

President of con., making election unanimous 12 

Rules, adoption of, discussion.18-20,22 

Excuse for Mr. M. J. O’Brien, requesting.... 54 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .108, 120, 134, 

283, 296, 325, 336, 458 
Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing . 702 

Amendment, Int. 34, Com. of Whole report, 

procedure . . . 728 

Sinking fund bonds, data, resolution.... 120, 121 

Bonds, data, re, resolution.137-140 

Hearings, home rule amendments, discussion. 275 
Legis., composition, discussion.. .342-344, 352, 488, 

490, 491, 498, 499, 502, 503 

Water for Convention, discussion. 365 

Tax Com. (Int. 612), introduc., discussion. .. 389 
Committee report, procedure upon, discuss.. 416 
Reapportionment, Int. 673, Com. report, 

motion to disagree . 530 

Reapportionment, adverse report, motion to 

disagree.535-545 

Reapportionment, discussion ..638, 639 

Amendment (Int. 673) adverse report, mo¬ 
tion, etc. 661-662 

Emergency message, abolish, Int. 78, debate. .822, 

823 

Laws complete in tl amselves, Int. 275, discus¬ 
sion .826, 827 

Impeachment by Legis., convening for (Int. 

291), discussion .832, 838 

Committees, opinion of, reporting, disposition. 851 
Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.905, 909, 910, 919 

920, 924 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion .942-943 

Education, state control, Int. 698, discussion. 983, 
985-987, 989-900, 994, 1091, 1096-1098, 

1103-1100 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.. 1000, 1003, 1005, 
1006, 1047-1049, 1055-1056 I 


Page 

Taxation, Int. 679, discus., debate. ... 1109, 1110 
1120-1121, 1123-1124, 1127, 1156, 1158, 1159 
Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, disc. 1221, 1222, 1232 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, vote.1228, 1231 

State budget, Int." 709, minority report. 1249, 1250 
Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion.. 1262, 
1268, 1269, 1285, 1302, 1303, 1305, 1306, 1308, 

1309, 1313 

Sinking funds, Int. 705, debate.1294-1299 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1393, 1394, 

1404, 1407, 1410-1411 
State Budget (Int. 709) debate. .1585, 1615, 1619- 
1625, 1661, 1674, 1679-1680, 1687, 1688, 
1689, 1690, 1703, 1707-1708, 1721-1722, 

1725 

State Budget (Int. 709) amending.1674 

Amendment (Int. 716), minority report.1735 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1754-1755 

Privileges (Int. 701) debate.'. .1811-1819 

Taxation (Int. 679), lack of quorum.1758 

Home rule (Int. 712) debate... 1893, 1947, 1965, 
1978, 2060, 2068-2069, 2078-2079 
Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706) debate. .2184, 2191, 

2218-2226 

State debts (Int. 705) final passage vote...2298 
State budget (Int. 709) final passage.2300, 2302- 

2303, 2305 

Impeachment (Int. 291) 3rd r’dg, debate.. .2341, 
2344-2345, 2349, 2350-2351, 2352 
Committee of Whole report, Int. 718, prog.. .2487 
Com. of W’’hole report (Int. 718), progress. .2535, 

2573, 2607, 2651 

Excuse for Mr. A. E. Smith, requesting_2658 

Com. of VTiole report (Int. 718), 3d read¬ 
ing .2795 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.. .2830-2835, 2853, 
2855-2857, 2859-2866, 2869, 2872, 
2874, 2875, 2877, 2882, 2885, 2886 
Voters, literary test (Int. 686), debate....2923- 

2928, 2949, 2950, 2952 

Amendment (Int. 713), amending.2953 

Public Seiwice Com. (Int. 706), debate_2990- 

2993, 3013 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate .3027 

Literacy test (Int. 686), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, postpone consideration..3032 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3110 

Future amendments (Int. 715) debate.3144 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3175, 3177 

Quorum, lack of, discussion.3290 

State Depts. (Int. 716), debate.3227, 3233, 3257- 
3262, 3401, 3404, 3406-3408, 3424, 3430-3432, 
3441, 3442-3445, 3448-3449 

Presence, recording .3277 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3733-3735 
Bills, passage (Int. 696), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, disagree . 3704 

Judiciary (Int. 718) vote, explanation.3841 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de- 

i>ate.3878-3879, 3884-3886, 3889 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3905-3907, 
3909-3910, 3994-3995, 4003-4004, 4008-4009, 

4015-4017 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 722), dis- 


agi’ee.4034 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720). debate.4072, 4076- 


4077, 4102, 4195, 4213-4215, 4244, 4261, 4262 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), final 
passage, debate-4117-4118, 4125-4126, 4130 

















































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Page 

Reapportioiiment (Int. 722), vote, explain¬ 
ing .4188 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4285-42815 

Living wage (Int. 193), discharge Com..4295- 

429G 

Adjourning Sept. 4, discussion.4297 

Final draft of Constitution, vote, separating 

reapportionment article .4370 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. 

4399-4400 


Mr. Ward. 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1317 


Mr. Waterman. 

Proposed amendments, introd. of. 405 


Mr. C. A. Webber. 

Excuse for Mr. Wafer, requesting.54-55 

Committee hearings, bulletin bd. for, etc... 115 
Transfer tax proceedings, data, resolution.. 178 
Proposed amendments, introduction of.. 223,403 


Tax Com. prop'd amend. (Int. 612), dis¬ 
cuss .391-392 

X. Y. City, condemnation proceedings, data.. 610 
Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion .939-940 


Taxation, Int. 679, discuss. 1003, 1122, 1125-1128 
Education, state func., Int. 698, debate.1092-1093 
Taxation, Int. 679, debate. 1162-1163, 1166, 1167 

1169, 1772, 1779 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discuss. 1289-1290, 

1304 

Taxation, Int. 679, printing amendments on 

calendar .1314-1315 

Registration (Int. 711), debate. . 1551-1552, 1751 

Taxation (Int. 679), debate.1779 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2827 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate .3021 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3088 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3439, 3151 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3565 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. ...3669 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4070, 4239-4243 
County government (Int. 721), debate.3742-3743 
Future amendments (Int. 715), final pas¬ 
sage .3934 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

explaining.4140 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4239-4242 

Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote. .4400 

Mr. Weed. 

Proposed amendment.^, introduction. 147, 242,399 


Legislature, composition, discussion. 347 

Resolutions, rule 50, amend. 356 

Excuse, requesting .1065 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. .1346, 1439, 

1460 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1540 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1676-1677 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.1975, 1994 


2027-2036, 2078, 2873 
Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. . .2533, 2631, 2645- 

2649, 2737, 2789 


Page 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate.2914, 29i5 
Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing.3626-3627 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3580-3581, 3591 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4207 


Mr. Westwood. 


Highways, $50,000,000 bond issue, apportion. 


data, resolution . 106 

Proposed amendments, introduction. .112,123, 318, 

339, 38o, 407-408 

Court of appeals, cases, data. 136 

Committees, originate amendments . 159 

Excuse for Mr. Whipple, requesting. 218 

Amendment, Int. 116, amending. 314 

Tax exemptions, abolishing, memorial. 412 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion.... 486 
Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion. .499-500 

Reference, Int. 667, changing. 784 

Convention rules, printing, discussion. 786 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), reading. 798 

Taxation, exemptions, Int. 424, amending. . . . 852 
Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.1127, 1799 


Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discus’n. 1210, 1213 

1215, 1222 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, amending. . 1310- 

1311, 1312-1313 

Western New York Volunteer Firemen’s As¬ 


sociation, memorials.1318 

Int.706, special orders.1358-1359 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. 

1391, 1406 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.. ..1539-1540, 

1544-1545 


Registration (Int. 711), debate. . .1554-1555-1561, 
1562, 1726-1728, 1731, 1734, 1745, 1750, 

1753-1754 


Taxation (Int. 679), amend_2000, 2124-2131 

Privilege (Int. 701) vote, explaining.2163 

Highway up^keep (Int. 479), amending.2165 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697) debate on 3d 

reading.2286, 2289 

Impeachment (Int. 291) 3rd r’dg, debate. ..2346- 

2347 2352 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706) debate.2170 

Amendment (Int. 706) recommitting state¬ 
ment .2355-2356 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2378, 2461-2466, 2468 

2470, 2486 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate.2521-^2523, 2694, 

2697,^2700, 2701, 2713-2715, 2753-2755, 2759, 

2768, 2773 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.2873 

Canals (Int. 710), debate.2976-2977 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3058 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate..3087, 3089 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3108-3109 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3462 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3549 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3563 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage... 3662, 

3668 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading .3692 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), debate.3754 






























































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Page 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate..3788 
Food products, measuring (Int. 131), de¬ 
bate .3802 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .4001-4002, 

4004, 4007, 4019 

Amendments (Int. 13, 407, 714), vote, expla¬ 
nation .4173 

State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3957 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4211-4212 

Mr. Wheeler. 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3629 


Mr. Whipple. 

Proposed amendments, second reading, dis¬ 
cussion . 60,61 

Proposed amendments, introduction.65, 386 

Floor, privileges of, for Edward Merritt.... 119 
Proposed amendments, introd., time limit.. 163 

Elevators, capitol, operation.260,261 

Committee reports by majority, discussion.. 303 
Committee, discharge of (Int. 36), discus¬ 
sion .303, 304 

Committee reference (Int. 28, 85, 159, 172, 

261, 498, 500) .413-414 

Stenographers, attendance of. 414 

G. A. R. Convention, resolu. changing vote.. 474 
Forestry Association publication, statement 

re. 681 

Committee of the Whole report.772-773 

Quorum, lack of, ascertaining. 808 

Conservation dept., Int. 708, minority report. 1018, 

1026-1028 

Conservation Deot (Int. 708), debate.130.3- 

1366, 1368-1369, 1376-1377, 1392, 1400, 
1405-1406, 1446-1461, 1477, 1485, 1504 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate, limit.. 1361 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), amendment 

offering . 1347,1352-1356 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, 

debate.1508, 1517, 1518, 1521, 1522 

Privilege (Int. 701) debate.2120 

Lunacy Com. (Int. 371), debate. .2801, 2802, 2808 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3087 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686 ), debte.2925 

Excuse for, requesting.3364 

Conservation (Int. 708), amending.3505 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3547-3548, 3557 

Taxation (Int. 679) amendment offering....3570 
Civil Service Com., adverse report, effect of.3807 
State Depts., reorg. (Int. 716), vote explain¬ 
ing .3957 

Mr. C. J. White. 

Committee of Whole, chairman, excuse.2798 


Mr. J. J. White. 

Proposed amendments, . introduction of... .56, 57 
Mr. Wickersham. 

N. Y. city gov., survey, preparing. 35 

Error in record, correcting. 69 

Reading of Journal, suspending. 72 

Prmting, discussion. 81 


Page 

Stenographers to convention, resolution.. 84-80 


Stenographers, convention committees, etc. 87 

Adjourn over Friday.94,95 

Printed matter, additT copies to delegates.. 98 

Resolutions for information, committee ref¬ 
erence of . 100 , 101 

Proposed amendments, printed copies, dis¬ 
tribution .105, 106 

Bill drafting expert, report on. 113 

Error in record, discussion. 118 

Court of appeals, data. 119 

Error page 108, Record, correcting.126,127 

Constitution, printing 1,000 copies for con¬ 
vention . 132 

Journal, reading of, dispense with. 132 

Court of appeals, cases, data, com. resol.. 135-137 

Canal bonds, etc., data, discussion. 138 

Journal, correction, time for. 143 

Committee hearings, resol., reference ... 144 

Taxation, constitutional provisions, pam¬ 
phlet, printing . 146 

State library, obtaining books from. 150 

Subjects, consideration of, limiting, tabling 

motion. 179 

Committee reference (Int. 197), discussion. 188- 

190 

Error page 75 Journal, correcting. 193 


Proposed amendments, introduction. .200, 297, 305 

400-401, 1874-1875 


County treasurers, fees, data, com, report.. 202 

Excuse for non-attendance, requesting. 208 

Constitutional amendments, vote upon, data, 

com. report . 254 

Legislature, cost of, data, com. report. .254,255 

Prisoners, pardons, data, com. report. 255 

Court of claims, cases, data.255,256 

Amendments, amending, new print numbers. 258 
Court of appeals, cases, data, communica¬ 
tion, printing.258 

Magna Charta celebration, invitation to 

Pres. Wilson, discussion .259,260 

Committee refer. (Int. 322), suggest.... 269, 270 
Recess of convention over Decoration Day, 
discussion.274 


Charles Andrews, ex-judge, congratulatory 

resolution . , .287,288 

Assistant sergeant-at-arms, changing title, 

appoint, etc. .. 299 

Committee, discharge of, effect, etc.303,304 

State Bar Association, memorial, printing, 

discussion . 312 

County treasurers, fees, data, comptroller, 

discussion, printing' .322, 323 

Canal bonds, etc., data, com. report.328 

'Transfer tax proceedings, data, com. report. 328 
Legis., organization, discussion..341-342, 344-346 

351-352 

Transfer tax, data, obtaining. 354 

Error, page 344, of Record, correcting. 366 

Committee reference, suggesting. 371 

Rules, copies, printing. 372 

“ Case and Comment,” resol. of thanks, discus¬ 
sion . 373 

Tax Com., report, discussion. 390 

Amendment, Int. 377, amending. 408 

Committee reports, procedure upon. 416 

Amendment, Int. No. 289, committee report,* 
procedure . 417 








































































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219 


Page 

Water, drinking for Convention, com. report, 

discussion .421, 423-424 

Legislature, two houses, resol., discus.425-426, 431 

Greeting to Judge Andrews. 437 

'lammany memorial, printing, discus. 438 

.Amendment, Int. 34, motion to lay aside... 439 
Prisoners, pardons, data, printing, discus.... 439 
App. Div., Second, Third, Fourth Depart¬ 
ments, data from resolution . 440 

Trask memorial, celebra., Saratoga, resol. 446-447 

Recess over July 4th, resolution. 454 

Surplus waters, data. Library Com. report, 

adopt .462-463 

App. Div., data, Library Com. report.463-464 

Committees, work, data, preservation, resol. 464 

676 

Judiciary Committee, hearings, resol. re. 465 

Amendments, Int. Xos. 11, 17, 43, 116, 197, 

206, 267, 292, 408, 604, committee reference. 468 
G. A. R. convention, recognition by Conv., 

motion .471-472 

G. A. R. Convention, resolution, discussion.... 474 
Legislature, two houses, resol., discussion.. . .483- 

489, 495, 497-502 

Amendment, Int. No. 673, amending. 507 

xAgricultural leases, Int. 34, discussion. .528-530, 

727-729 

Reapportionment, N. Y. City’s representation, 

debate . , .646-649 

Claims against state, atty-gen. report, print¬ 
ing .676-677 

Convention sessions. Rules Com. report. . .684-685 

688 

Extra compen., public officers, contractors, 
etc., amendment, Int. 289, debate. 725-726, 727 
Amendment, Int. 624, discussion... .738, 749, 783 
Extra compen., Int. 289, discussion..751-753, 754, 

756, 757, 759 

Emergency message, Int. 78, postponing. 771 

Amendment, Int. 214, postponing. 777 

Judiciary Com. assistant clerk. 779 

Saturday sessions of Convention, discussion.. 791- 

792 

Quorum, lack of, discussion.805-809 

Extra compensation, Int. 289, amending. .814-815 
Laws complete in themselves, Int. 275, debate. 826 
State conventions, nominations, Int. 4, discus¬ 
sion .849-850 

Convention sessions, changing, resol.862, 876, 901 
Committee work, report on, requesting, resol. 876 

Staturday sessions, purpose of, etc.877-879 

Close call, motion for. 887 

Amendment, Int. 624, amend and recommit.. 890 
Judiciary Com., progress, statement re.... 894 

Charities Com., progress, statement re. 898 

Amendment, Int. 624, placing at foot of cal¬ 
endar . 903 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.910, 924 

Amendment, Int. 624, moving. 929 

Official oath, Int. 88, discussion.932-936 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discussion.948, 
996-997, 1088-1089, 1091, 1093, 1098-1100 

1107-1110 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion.955-958, 1000 

1001, 1012, 1061, 1063, 1064, 1118, 1119, 1122 
1123, 1127, 1128, 1130, 1131, 1157, 1160, 1161 
1163, 1164, 1165, 1168, 1170, 1188, 1189 

1801-1802 


Page 

Betts, excuse for, requesting. 959 

Amendment, Int. 706, reference report by 

committee . 967 

State debts, Int. 705, special order for Aug. 5. 975 

Recess.1031 

Party nominations (Int. 699), discussion. ... 1042 
Canal fund comrs., Int. 363, discus’n. . 1062-1063 

Stenographers, apptg., resol., reference.1065 

Taxation, Int. 679, offering amendmt. . 1108-1110 
Finance Com. report, Int. 709, reading dis¬ 
pense with .1136 

Canals Com. report, Int. 710, reading dis¬ 
pense with .1150 

Amendments, Int. 531, 534, 532, 535), movg.1217 

Amendment, Int. 624, notice re moving.1217 

Indians, tribal courts, Int. 707, debate ad¬ 
journing .1220, 1221 

Adjournment, hour of, statement.1227 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, discussion.1231 

Conservation dept., Int. 708, minority reports, 

dispense with reading.1025, 1026, 1028 

Amendment, Int. 707, discussion.1252 

Legislators’ salary, Int. 697, reconsider vote. 1234, 

1243 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, debate. .1272, 1273, 

1309, 1313 

Convention sessions, order of business.1314 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.1355, 

1362, 1402-1403-1404, 1407, 1409- 
1410, 1412, 1469, 1503, 1527 

Int. 711, special order.1357 

Attendance, Convention work, statement re. 1358 
Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate, limit¬ 
ing .1361 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), squatters, 

debate.1511, 1513-1514, 1522 

Amendment (Int. 711), taking up out of 

order.1527 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1594, 1596, 

1601-1602, 1600-r661, 1662 


Revision 

Com. 

report 

(Int. 698, 

707), 

tabling 



.1670 

Revision 

Com. 

report 

(Int. 291, 

289), 

tabling 



.1671 

Dr. Andrew D. White, floor privilege. 

.1679 


Registration (Int. 711), debate.. 1732-1733, 1734 
Amendment (Int. 716), minoirity reports, 

reading .1735 

Privileges (Int. 701), debate.... 1802, 1808-1811. 

1835, 1856, 1859-1860 

Judiciary Com. report.1863-1874 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. 1910, 

1918, 1932, 1939-1940, 1947-1949, 
1954, 1955, 1967-1969, 1971-1975, 
1978-1979, 1982, 1989-1994, 1996- 
1997, 2003, 2015-2019, 2022, 2036- 
2043, 2047, 2057, 2061, 2062, 
2069-2071, 2079 

Judiciary Com. report (Int. 718), additional 

copies .2081 

Privilege (Int. 701), motion to strike out..2082 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2094-2096 

2111-2113, 2119, 2120 
Com. of Whole rep. (Int. 701) laid over...2121- 

2122 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate.2151 

Privilege (Int. 701), roll call.2152 

Revision Com. (Int. 679), discharging.2200 




























































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Page 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), amend, de¬ 
bate .2169-2172, 2178, 2180, 2183, 

2198, 2213, 2224-2225, 2231 
Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), debate, re¬ 
committing.2283, 2287, 2289 

Impeachment (Int. 291), 3rd reading, debate. 

2344, 2353 

Amendment (Int. 706), recommit, statement.2356 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2357-2372, 

2375‘—2379 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2384-2386, 2388-2391 
2393-2395, 2397-2408, 2410, 2413-2414, 2416- 
2418, 2430-2432, 2436-2440, 2450-2451, 2478, 
2483, 2486-2487, 2491-2492, 2504, 2507, 2511, 
2515-2516, 2526-2537, 2543, 2549, 2561-2563, 
2565-2570, 2573. 2.577, 2580, 2588-2590, 2593, 
2605-2607, 2624-2625, 2636, 2640, 2647-2652, 
2678-2679, 2684-2699, 2705-2709, 2713, 2716, 
2718-2719, 2720-2728, 2730-2731, 2733, 2738, 
2740-2741, 2742-2743, 2745-2752, 2754-2758, 
2761, 2767-2768, 2771, 2774-2775, 2778-2781, 

2788, 2793-2795 

Excuse for Mr. Cnllinan, requesting.2653 

Judiciary (Int. 718), quorum, lack of. .2673-2675 

Third reading, order of, postponing.2798 

Lunacy Com. (Int. 371), debate.2809, 2815, 2816 
Int. 712, 713, change order on special orders.2816 
Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. .2825, 2840, 2848, 

2877, 2885-2886 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate. .2899-2001, 2219 

Third Reading calendar, passing.2923 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .. .2934, 

2949, 2953 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate... .2986, 
3988-3990, 3995, 3001, 3005, 3008, 3010-3013 
Canals (Int. 710), debate ..2955-2956, 2964, 2977 
Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate . 3030 

Public Service Com., previous question. .... .3031 
Amendment (Int. 716) special order, chang¬ 
ing .3039, 3064, 3065 

Third reading, suspending.3039-3040 

Legislators salary (Int. 697) debate.3081- 

3083, 3090 

Call of the House, notice of.3090 

Excuses for members, statement re.3091 

Highways (Int. 31) debate.3091, 3120, 

3125-3126 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3140, 3150, 
3162, 3168-3169, 3171, 3172-3173, 3183-3193 

Quorum, lack of, roll call.3151-3195 

Constitution, submitting (Int. 145), 3rd 
reading.3194 

State Depts. (Int. 716), debate..3224, 3228, 3230, 
3233, 3235-3236, 3238, 3240, 3245, 3253-3257, 
3267-3268, 3290, 3324, 3363-3364, 3396-3400, 
3401-3402, 3407, 3413, 3420, 3437-3441, 3449, 
3453-3454, 3464-3406, 3485-3486, 3488-3489, 

3493, 3495-3496 


Excuse for Mr. Owen, requesting.3277 

Constitutional Convention Commission re¬ 
port, resolution .3279 

Adjourning Saturday afternoon.3282-3283 

Quorum, ascertaining....3151, 3325, 3599, 3701, 
3864, 3912, 3979, 4042, 4091, 4159, 4220 

Call of the House, notice of.3334 

Third reading, dispensing..3336 


Page 

Amendment (Int. 711), amending, debate..3502- 

3503 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3552-3553, 3556 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing.3579-3580, 3589-3592, 3596-3598 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3625, 3627-3628 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing .3644-3645 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage....3665 

Canals (Int. 710), laying aside.3680-3681 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate on 3rd 

reading. 3682-3684 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate on 

3rd reading.3690-3693, 3696, 3699-3700 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3733 

Telegram to Mr. Tanner re operation.3760 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), debate. ...3744, 

3749, 3755-3761 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3777,, 

3785, 3789-3791 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.3791, 
3794, 3796, 3798-3800, 3802-3803 
Amendments (Int. 702, 131), special order. 


changing . . . .3791 

Debts, cities, counties (Int. 713), debate on 

3rd reading .3836-3837 

Canals (Int. 710), final passage. ...3844-3845, 

3852-3853 

Third reading, suspending.3864 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), de¬ 
bate .3890 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate. .3896- 

3898 


Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate..3906, 3909- 


3911 

Public Service (Int. 706), laying aside.3926 

Committee on Address to the People re Con¬ 
stitution . 3989 

Committee re submitting Constitution.3989 

Convention delegates, certificate of election.. 3990 
Third reading suspending .3991 


Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .3992-3993, 
3997, 4000-4001, 4003-4005, 4007, 4009-4011, 
4014-4015, 4018-4019, 4031,-4033 
Committee of Whole report (Int. 722), dis¬ 
agree . ..4034 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), letter from 

Gov. Whitman .4042 

Third reading, postponing.4051 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), amending.4050, 

4099-4100 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate... .4066, 4068- 
4070, 4072, 4074, 409.0, 4192-4297, 4200- 
4201, 4203, 4205-4207, 4210-4211, 4213, 
4216, 4218-4219, 4240-4241, 4243, 4245, 


4248, 4251, 4263-4266 

Bill of Right (Int. 720), debate limitel.4237 

Third reading, suspending .4192 

Adjournment, to September 9.4156-4157 

Civil service, veterans (Int. 29), making spe¬ 
cial order .4169 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), proceedings pend¬ 
ing engrossing . ..4267 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), final passage.4287 

Living wage (Int. 193), debate.4283, 4285 

Motion to adjourn, September 4.4297 




























































Stenographic Record, Index by Delegates 


221 


Page 

Revised Consititiition, manner of submitting, 

resol. authenticating.4428 

Excuse for J. S. I’liillips, requesting.4306 

Final draft of Constitution, attesitiiig, resol. .4404 
Quorum, ascertaining, roll call.. .4300, 4349, 4400 
Revised Constitution, submission, manner or, 

debate .4415, 4420-4427 

Address to the People, Com. report.4428 

Address to the People, discussion of.. . .4437, 4439 
Address to the People, authenticating, print¬ 
ing .4448 

Indexing, Record, eJournal, Documents, etc., 

l)rinting .4448 

Resolution of thanks to Revision Com.4449 

Education Coni’r, resol. of thanks for assist¬ 
ance .4449 

Supplies, stationery, etc., disposition.4449 

Rooks, Records, etc., of Convention, disposi¬ 
tion . 4449 

Committee to aid 1916 Legislature.4451 

Newspapermen, resol. of thanks.4452 

Legislative librarians, resol. of thanks.4452 

Signing new Constitution, order of.4451-4452 

Revised Constitution, deliver to Secy, of 

State, notice, etc.4452-4453 

Appointment on Com. of Notification to Secy. 

of State ..^.4453 

Resolution of thanks. Convention steno¬ 
grapher and J. B. Lyon Co.4453 


Mr. Wiggins. 

Court of appeals, cases, data, resol.72,73 

Proposed amendments, introduction. . .74, 91, 108, 

109, 134, 183, 184, 268,284, 
316,317, 326, 337, 379 

Int. 12, incorrectly printed, statement. 98 

State officers, various states, data. 130 

Canal bonds, etc., data.138,139 

App. Div., appeals, data, resolution. 180 

State officers, electing, other states. 191 

Records, journals, etc., printing, distribu¬ 
tion, discussion .228,229 

Printing, records, journals, etc., number, dis¬ 
tribution .234,235 

Recess over Decoration Day, resolution. 266 

Recess of convention over Decoration Day, 

discussion .274 

Recess over Decoration Day, adopt resolution. 228 
Adjournment from May 28 to June 3, resol.. 288 
“ Case and Comment,” copies resol. of thanks. 372- 

373 

IMessenger, L. V. Gardner, transferring. 476 

Legislature, two houses, resol. discussion.... 493 
Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, dis¬ 
cussion .687, 693 

Propositions referred to Com. for opinion, 

procedure. 730 

Messengers, certain, resolution. 744 

^Messenger, appointing, resol. 785 

Suffrage Com., speeches before, printing. .872-873 
Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion.922-924 

Education, state function, Int. 698, discus¬ 
sion .946-947 

Taxation, Int. 679, discussion. . . .1055, 1786-1788 


Page 

Short ballot memorials, reading.1068 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), vote, explain¬ 
ing ..*. 1243 

Amendment, Int. 371, minority report.1249 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discuss. .1282-1284, 

1292 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, amendment 

offering .1292-1293 

Amendment (Int. 713), minority report, 

statement re. 1437 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1657 

Registration (Int. 711), debate.1738 

Amendment (hit. 716), minority reports, 

printing.1763 

Taxation (Int. 679), debate.1786-1788 

Absence, exjilaining, by Mr. Berri.1915 

Excuse for Mr. Rosch, requesting.1918 

Absence, explanation .1953 

llome Rule (Int. 712), debate.2054 

Taxation (Int. 679), amend, debate. ...2126-2127 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), amend.2227 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2565, 2600-2603 

Amendments (Int. 371, 686, 710, 712, 713, 

706, 719), limiting debate.2574 

Amendment (Int. 697), special order.2575 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2612-2613, 2618, 

2625, 2630, 2634-2636, 2685-2687, 2691-2693, 
2701, 2708-2712, 2714, 2720, 2728, 2732, 2738, 

2741, 2770, 2793 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate. .2836-2837, 2839, 

2853, 2863, 2876-2878 
Int. 716, special order for August 30th. .3033-3035 

Excuse, requesting.3282 

State depts. (Int. 716), debate..3256, 3289-3290. 
3373-3381, 3459-3461, 3470, 3472, 3479, 3493, 

3495-3496 

Excuse after 3:30 ]). m., Aug 28, requesting.3282 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage.3563-3564 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate on 3rd reading..3589, 

3597 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.3617, 

3619-3620 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage. .3667- 

3668 

Governor, term, salary (Int. 702), debate. .3784- 

3787. 

Food products, measuring (Int. 131), debate.379.5- 
3796, 3798-3799, 3803, 4103-4105 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. . . .3907-3908 
State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), A’ote explain¬ 
ing .3958 

Presence, noting.3988 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate.4009 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), vote 

ex]Jaining.4141 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4070, 4196, 

4217, 4240, 4252, 4255-4256, 4258, 4264 
Food products, inspection (Int. 131), debate. 

4103-4105 

Manufacturing in tenements (Int. 407), vote, 

explaining.4141 

Bill of Rights (Int, 720), vote explaining. ..4294 
Final draft of Constitution, explaining vote.4401 
Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 

debate.4415, 4417, 4427 

Final draft of Constitution, printing, state¬ 
ment .4405 

Address to the People, vote, explaining.4447 

Revised Constitution, 100 copies to each dele¬ 
gate .4451 




































































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Mr. Winslow. . Page 

Proposed amendments, introduction of. 183 

Spanish War Veterans, memorial.1318 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate. 1336, 1337 

Judiciary, Int. 718, debate.2393, 2437 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate. .2718-2719, 2736 


2739-2740', 2785 

Home rule (Int. 712), debate on 3rd reading.3617, 

3620-3621, 3627 

Bill of Eights (Int. 720), debate_4077, 4195, 

4202, 4217 

Mr. Wood. 

Excuse, non-attendance, requesting. 248 

Proposed amendments, introduction of.. . 285, 460 

Memorial, volunteer firemen. 371 

Petition, town of Wellsville, voting machines. 458 
Amendments, Int. Nos. 507, 593, com. refer¬ 
ence . 461 

Stenographers, attendance, resol. 461 

Trask Memorial, Saratoga Springs, resol. of 

thanks.510-511 

Corporations Com., progress, statement re.. 896 

Leave for H. J. Norton.1017 

Indian Courts (Int. 707), debate.1538-1539 

Excuse, requesting .1862 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2588, 2590 

Excuse, requesting.2610 

Mr. C. H. Young. 

Proposed amendments, introduction..58, 59,108, 
155. 224, 316, 337, 458, 459 
Committee hearings, notice of, post., resol. . 144 

Committee reference, Int. 10 .^. .. 294 

Amendment, Int. 463, amending. 468 

Privileges and Elections Com., progress, state¬ 
ment re . 900 

Finances, state debts, Int. 705, discussion... 1269 

Home Rule (Int. 712) debate.2052 

Judiciarv (Int, 718), debate. .2506-2507, 2568- 
2569, 2571-2573, 2587-2591, 2603-2605 

Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate.2901-2913 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate. .2948- 

2949, 2951-2952 

Committee of Whole report (Int. 686) dis¬ 
agree .3040, 3042, 3045, 3059 


Mr. F. L. Young. Page 

Sergeant-at-arms, nominating . 16 

President, election, correct minutes. 29 

Bill drafting dept, for convention. 89 

Proposed amendments, introduction.361,404 

Convention sessions, Mondays, discussion.... 686 
Amendment, Int. 493, re-reference on report¬ 
ing .701-702 

Quorum, lack of, discussion.806, 807 

Emergency message, abolish, Int. 78, debate. .817- 

818 


Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 127, 

247, 285, 372, discussion. 919 

Com. of Whole report, Int. 679, progress.... 1188 
Com. of Whole report, Int. 679, 707, prog... .1221 
Com. of Whole rejwrt, Int. 697, 385, 3d read¬ 
ing .....1221 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate.... 1333, 


1381, 1386, 1389, 1391, 1401, 1412, 
1429, 1456-1459, 1506, 1507 

State Budget (Int. 709), debate.1695 

Taxation (Int. 679), debate.1799 

Excuse, requesting.1949 

Privilege (Int. 701), debate.2119 

Public Serv. Com. (Int. 706), debate...2186 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2393 

Judiciarv (Int. 718), debate. .2593, 2617-2619, 
2621-2622, 2711-2712, 2715, 2720, 2726-2730, 

2739 

Correction, page 2712, of Record.2797 

Voters, literacy test (Int. 686), debate.2949 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), debate. .2991- 

2992, 2994, 2997-2999 

Appropriations, local, private (Int. 719), de¬ 
bate .3020, 3028-3029 

Future amendments (Int. 715), debate.3186 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), debate.3451 

County government (Int. 721), debate.3731-3733, 

3742 


County government (Int. 721), final passage.3961- 

3962 

Correction, page 3961 of Record.3987 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), debate.. . .3901- 

3902 

Excuse, requesting .4098-4099 

Revised Constitution, submission, manner of, 
debate .4420-4421 













































Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


223 


STENOGRAPHIC RECORD INDEX BY SUBJECTS 

SHOWING SUBJECT AND NUMBER OF PAGE OF THE PRINTED STENOGRAPHIC 

RECORD 


Subject Page 

Absent delegates, fining. 890 

Absent electors, registration, Int. 42, 91, 

127, 247, 285, 372, debate. 903-924 

Absent electors, registration (Int. 711), 

minority report. 1249 

Absent electors, registration (Int. 711), 

debate.1546-1563, 1726-1734, 1736-1756 

Absent electors, registration (Int. 711), 

to 3rd reading.1758-1759 

Absent electors (Int. 711), amended, de¬ 
bate .3467, 3498-3504 

Absent electors (Int. 711), Revision Com. 

rep. 3637 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage, 

debate .3660-3671 

Absent electors (Int. 711), final passage, 

vote .3671-3680 

Address to the People, Com. on. 3989 

Address to the People, proposed by Com., 

discussion.4428-4439 


Address to the People, adoption, vote. .4439-4448 
Address to the People, authenticating. 


printing. 4448 

Adjournment, Sept. 4, hour, fix.4228-4229 

Adjournment, Sept. 4 to Sept. 9, resol..4156, 4297 
Adjourning over Saturday, motions, etc. 876, 877 

879-888, 1016, 1031 

Adjournment of Convention, final. 4460 

Adjourning, motions re, discussion. 806,809 

Agric., leases (Int. 34), discussion. 511-528 

707-723, 727-729 
Agricultural leases (Int. 34), bill killed. 728-729 

Albany, Assistant of civil engineers. 299 

Albany, city of, memorial. 775 

Albany, home rule memorial. 894 

Altkrug, Louis J., memorial. 506 

Amendments, files for third reading and 

G. 0. calendar.851-862, 9<J8 

Amendments proposed: 

Amendments, new print number. 257-258 

Introduction of (Nos. 1 to 26). 56-65 

Introduction of (Nos. 27 to 40). 73-75 

Introduction of (Nos. 41 to 59). 90-93 

Introduction of (Nos. 60 to 96). 106-112 

Introduction of (Nos. 97 to 116). 120-123 

Introduction of ^Nos. 117 to 131).... 133-135 

Introduction of (Nos. 132 to 141).... 147-149 

Introduction of (Nos. 142 to 165).... 153—157 

Introduction of (Nos. 166 to 187).... 171-174 

Introduction of (Nos. 188 to 213).... 180-185 

Introduction of (No. 214). 188 

Introduction of (Nos. 215 to 220).. 200-202 
Introduction of (Nos. 221 to 244)... 214-218 
Introduction of (Nos. 245 to 259)... 223-226 
Introduction of (Nos. 260 to 280)... 242-246 
Introduction of (Nos. 281 to 294) .... 252-254 

Introduction of (Nos. 295 to 305) . 261-263 

Introduction of (Nos. 306 to 332) .... 266-272 

Introduction of (Nos. 333 to 355) .... 282—286 

Introduction of (Nos. 356 to 3'57) .... 290 


Subject Page 

Amendments, proposed — continued: 

Introduction of (Nos. 358 to 370).... 296-299 
Introduction of (Nos. 371 to 398).... 304-308 
Introductions of (Nos. 399 to 424) .... 314-318 
Introduction of (Nos. 425 to 441)....325-327 
Introduction of (Nos. 442 to 481).... 333-340 
Introduction of (Nos. 482 to 522) .... 356-363 

Introduction of (Nos. 523 to 611)_ 373-387 

Introduction of (No. 612) . 387, 389 

Introduction of (Nos. 613 to 667) . .399-408 

Introduction of (No. 668). 415 

Introduction of (Nos. 669 to 672.... 437-438 

Introduction of (No. 673) . 446 

Introduction of (Nos. 674 to 680) .... 448-449 

Introduction of (Nos. 681 to 690) .... 458-461 

Introduction of (Int. No. 691). 469 

Introduction of (No. 692). 476-477 

Introduction of (No. 693). 506-507 

Introduction of (No. 694). 682 

Introduction of (No. 695). 704 

Introduction of (No. 696). 740 

Introduction of (No. 697). 797,803 

Introduction of (No. 698) . 845 

Introduction of (Nos. 699-702). 863-866 

Introduction of (No. 703). 869-870 

Introduction of (Nos. 704 to 705) .... 891 

Introduction of (No. 706). 963 

Introduction of (No. 707) . 979-980 

Introduction of (No. 708). 1018 

Introduction of (No. 709).1134-1135 

Introduction of (No. 710).1152-1153 

Introduction of (No. 711). 1248 

Introduction of (No. 712). 1250 1 

Introduction of (No. 713). .1436 

Introduction of (No. 714). 1470 

Introduction of (No. 715). 1668 

Introduction of (No. 716)..... . 1735 

Introduction of (No. 717). 1762 

Introduction of (No. 718) . 1874 

Introduction of (Nos. 719 to 720) ... 2238 

Introduction of (No. 721). 2383 

Introduction of (No. 722). 3119 

Introduction of (No. 723). 3280 

Introduction of (No. 724).•. . 3505 

Introduction of (No. 725). 3761 

Introduction, by committee, proce¬ 
dure .389-394,468 

Introduction by committees, discussion. 470-471 
Introduction by request, procedure.... 461-462 

Introduction of, number of copies. 259 

Introduction, of, limit.409-410 

Introduction of. time limit. 42-44 

Introduction of, time limit, fixing.... 158-166 
Statement of reasons, to accompany. . 223 

Submitted by Legislature, copies of. .. 101, 468 
Submitted by Legi^ature, memo, from 

Sec’y of State. 789 

Suggestions for, submitting to conven¬ 
tion . 242 

Amendments, reference to two or more 

committees . 292-294 










































































224 


Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


Subject Page 

Amendments, passage, vote required..... 2201 
Amendments, submission to voters, time, 

manner. IGS-lOO 

Amsterdam, common council, home rule 

memorial . 1566 

Andrews, Charles, congratulatory reso¬ 
lution . 287-288 

Appeals, App. Divs., data, procuring... 180 
App. Div., data. Library Com. report.. .. 463-464 
App. Div., Second, Third and Fourth De¬ 
partments, data, resol. 446 

Appropriations (Int. 719), debate on 

third reading, amended.3684-3687 

Appropriations (Int. 719), final passage, 

vote .3926-3934 

Appropriations (Int. 719), Revision Com. 

report. 3863 

Appropriations, private local (Int. 719), 

debate.3013-3030 

Appropriations, special (Int. 719), limit¬ 
ing debate .21573-2574 

Arbitration, commercial, state depts., 

memorial. 194-195 

Assembly districts, apportionment, reso¬ 
lution . 251 

Assembly, Speaker, salary, discussion. . 800-801 
Assistant Sargeant-at-Arms, change title 299 
Attorney-General, special counsel, cost, 

data, resolution request . 373 

Attorney-General, special counsel, cost, 

data. 463,681 

Attorneys, practice (Int. 718), Com. 

. report. 1866 

Banking Com. report (Int. 474, 580, 581), 

submitting. 978 

Baptist Ministers Conference, memorial 698 
Bar Association, State, memorial re Judi¬ 
ciary . 59 

Bar Ass’n, state, memorial, printing .... 312 

Batavia, memorial . 811 

Beacon, city of, memorial. 743 

Bill drafting department, for convention. 88-89 

Bill drafting expert, appointment. 174 

Bill drafting, for convention, expert as¬ 
sistant . 113 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), amended.3637-3638 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), Com. of Whole 

rep., third reading.4266-4267 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate.4053-4090, 

4192-4219, 4238-4266 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), debate extend.4237-4238 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), minority report 3642 
Bill of Rights (Int. 720), special order.3641-3642, 

3709 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), Revision Com. 

rep. 4286 

Bill of Rights (Int. 720), final passage, 

vote .4287-4295 

Binghamton Engineering Society, me¬ 
morial .'.. 371 

Binghamton, home rule memorial. 927 

Bonds, canals, etc., data, resol. 328 

Bonds, memorial, Herkimer county super¬ 
visors . 321-322 

Bradley Hose Co., J. B., memorial. 509 

Bronx Board of Trade, memorial. 468 

Bronx property owners ass’n. 299 

Brown, E. R. short ballot, memorial.2234-2237 
Budget (Int. 709), debate... 1567-1662, 1672-1726 


Subject Page 

Budget, state (Int. 709) final passage, 

vote.2310-2321 

Budget (Int. 709), amending. 2000 

Budget, memorial E. R. Brown.2234-2237 

Budget, memorial Nicholas Murray Butler 2237 
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, memorial 

re canals . 2234 

Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, memorial 

re canals . 2609 

Building zones (Int. 724), Com. report. 3505 
Building zones (Int. 724), discussion. .4267-4268 
Building zones (Int. 724) made special 

order . 3990 

Call of the House, notice of. 3090 

Canal board (Int. 725), Com. report.... 3761 

Canal board (Int. 725), debate.4050-4053 

Canal board (Int. 725) made special or¬ 
der . 3990 

Canal board (Int. 725), Com. of Whole 

report . 4090 

Canal board (Int. 725), final passage, 

vote .4149-4156 

Canal board (Int. 725), Revision Com. 

report . 4098 

Canal boat masters of Buffalo, memorial 3805 
Canal fund comrs, aboL, Int. 363, debte.1061-1064 

Canals, claims vs. state for, data. 255-256 

Canals Com. report.1150-1153 

Canals (Int. 710), amended.3159-3160 

Canals (Int. 710), amended.3594-3505 

Canals (Int. 710), debate on third read¬ 
ing .3841-3853 

Canals (Int. 710), debate on third read¬ 
ing, laid aside.3680-3681 

Canals (Int. 710), Revision Com. rep.. 3637 
Canals (Int. 710), final passage, vote. .3853-3860 

Canals (Int. 710), debate.2956-2986 

Canals (Int. 710), limiting debate. .. .2573-2574 
Canals, memorial from Buffalo Chamber 

of Commerce re. 2609 

Canals, memorial re, Rochester. 3038 

Canals, surplus waters, power develop¬ 
ment, resolution. 279--2S0 

Canals, surplus waters, data... 574 

“ Case & Comment,” copies of, proposed 

resolution. 372-373 

Capital punishment, hearing, printing. . 792-793 
Capital punishment, memorial. Society 

of Friends .*. 961-962 

Capital punishment (Int. 720), minority 

report .*. 3642 

Capitol employees, resolution of tlianks to 4450 
Census of 1915, data from Secretarv of 

state.. .4453-4455 

Census, 1915, results requesting.3988-3989 

Certificate of Election, Convention dele¬ 
gates, resolution .3989-3990 

Charities Com. report, submitting. 1249 

Charities (Int. 371), debate.2799-2816 

Charities (Int. 371), limiting debate. .2573-2574 
Charities, N. Y. Charities Organization 

Society, memorial . 3988 

Children’s cts. (Int. 718), Com. report.. 1873 
Cigarettes, inmates charitable, penal, in¬ 
sane institutions, data . 169-170 

Cities (Int, 712), minority report. 1250 

Cities Com. report, home rule, Int. 712, 

submitting . 1250 

Cities, home rule (Int. 712) debate, . 1875-1910, 
1919-1949,. 1958-1998, 2000-2080, 2817-2880 







































































Stenographic I^ecord, Index by Subjects 


225 


Subject Page 

Cities (Int. 712^, limiting debate.;2573-25<4 

Cities, home rule (Int. 712), debate on 

3rd reading.3614-3629 

Cities, home rule (lut. T12), Pevision 

Com. report . 3760 

Cities, home rule (Int. 712), final pas¬ 
sage, vote . 3825-3834 

Cities .(lut. 700), recommitting*. 3808 

City debts flnt. 7.13), minority report.. 1437 
Cities, debts (Int. 713), debate on third 

reading.3638-3640, 3643-3645, 3834-3840 

Cities, .debts (Int. Till), Revision Com. 

.report . 3912 

Cities, debts (Int. 713)., final passage, 

<vote .3919-3926 

Cities, debts (Int. .713), debate.2887-2901 

City debts flnt. 713), debate.29.53-2955 

City debts (Int. 713)„ limiting debate. .2573-2574 

Citizens Hose Co.,'.memorial. 509 

Citizens Union, memorial.. .506 

Civil procedure (Int. 718) Com. report. 1864 

Civil Service Committee, ^membership. 131 

Civil .Service, Com. report, disagree.. . .4167-4171 

Civil service, preference, .memorial. 332 

Civil .'Service preference, jmemorial, .fire¬ 
men, introduction, presentation . 871 

Civil Service, Rules Com. rep. disagree.4229-4237 
Civil Service (Int. .29),, discharge Com., 

notice . 3717 

Civil:Service (Int. 29), discharge .Com... 3806-3808 
Civil Ser., memorial irom C. 'F.i'Cramer. . 3498 

Civil service, Spanish War Veterans, 

memorials_1246-1247, I3L17-13.18,^2123, 3498 

Civil Service, ‘Spanish War Vet. Civil 

Service A^ssln, memaiiial. 8498 

Civil Service (‘Int. *29, 53, 77, 136, 138, 

142, 237, 263, 281, 284, 351, 427, 508, 

•528, 614, 641, 642,‘657, ^658), reported 

adversely . '3506 

Civil 'Service (Int. 29), suspend rules, 

notice . 4267 - 


Claims against state,'data from Attorney- 

General .532,'676, 677 

Claims against state, data, procuring.. 180 

Claims against State (Int. 550), recom¬ 
mitting . 3762 

Claims against State (Int. 214), recom¬ 
mitting . '3761 

Claims, court of, cases, salaries, data, 

.resolution .213-214 

Claims, court of, data, resolution, refer¬ 
ence ...* 248 

Claims, court of, cases, salaries, etc., data 255-256 
Claims, court of (Int. 718) Com. report 1872 

Claims, Court of, data. 747 

Clarke, S. B., memorial. 412 

Clergymen, prayers, convention ses. comp. 398 

ClerK to Conservation Com., resol- 683 


Clerk, assistant. Judiciary Com., appoint¬ 
ing ...;. 

Clerk, Cities Com., appointing, resol- 

Clerks, messengers, certain. 

Clerks, minor offices, to convention, 'ap¬ 
pointing .. • • :. 

Clerks, stenographers, to convention com¬ 
mittees . . ‘ ‘: . 

Clerks, stenographers, appointment.... 
Clerks, stenog., etc., 'appointment. 


779 

786 

744 


140-141 


135 

226 

174 


Subject Rage 

Cohoes Board of Trade, memorial. -811 

College of 'the Church of ‘ Christ, memorial 2798 
Commercial travelers, registration (-hit. 

42, 91, 127,-247, 285, .372), debate.... 993-924 
Coinpleted work of Convention, time 

limit. 508-569 

Committee of the ’Whole, adverse reports, 

procedure. 727-728 

Committee to assist Legis. of 1916. . . .4459-4451 
Committees: 

Amendments by, reports, procedure.. 453-454 
Amendments referred for opinion, pro¬ 
cedure . 739 

Assignment of rooms for..... .76 

Bills afiecting other committees.18.8-19J 

Clerks, stenographers to . .124 

Committee clerks, data, disposition of. 4172 

Data, work, etc., preserving, resbl. 464, 676 

/Discharging, teffect of. 303-394 

Discharging, ruling upon .2299-2291 

(Future amendments, stenog., appoint¬ 


ment . . 


207-t208 


"Meetings of, motice, .posting..... 212-213 

Memorandum re bills, disposition. 867-858 

Minor offices, creating . 23 

Minutes of, distribution .. 178-^179 

Opinions’by, disposition of, discussion. '848-851 

Powers of .. 158-^166 

Powers of . 263 

Printing, creating . 25 

Progress of, report upon.876, 892,'894-901 

'Proposed amendments,‘introducing,-dis- 

.cussion. 389-394 

Reports by, majority vote, resol., adopt. 325 

Reports by, procediire, rules amend’t. . 469 

Reports, majority vote, resolution.'302-303 

Reports of amendments, procedure. 

Rule 32..478-479, 704-706 

Reports, procedure upon. 470 

Reports by, Int. 275, re-reference, dis¬ 
cussion , . 699-703 

Reports, procedure, discussion re. 340-352 

Reports, procedure upon . 415-417 

Reports, procedure . 451-453 

Rules, members of . .31 

Contingent expenses, members of. '3 l1 

Minor offices, members of... 31 

..Standing, members of. 46-^8 

Comptroller, data re sinking funds, print¬ 
ing . 803 


Conservation, dept, of, committee report, 

minority reports . 1018-^1029 

Conservation Dept. (Int. 708), debate... 

1319-1430,' 1437-1527 

Conservation (Int. 708), amend.3505,3759 

Conservation (Int. 708), debate on 3rd 

reading.3542—3557 

Conservation (Int. 708), final passage. 

vote .3898—3816 

Conservation (Int. 798), misprint, cor¬ 
recting .. 3^81—3682 

Conservation (Int. 798), Revision Com. 

report . 3771 

Constitution of 1894, copies.. 132 

Constitution, address to people. Com. on. 3989 

Constitution, amendments submitted by 

Lesn’slatnre, letter of Sec’y of State,. ’789 

Constitution, as finally adopted, delivery 

to ^Secretarv of State . 4456 











































































226 


Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


Subject . Page 

Constitution, as finally adopted, manner 

of submitting, debate .4414-4428 

Constitution, as finally adopted, signing.4451-4452 
Constitution, as finally adopted, authenti¬ 
cating resolution prescribing manner of 


submitting 


4428 


Constitution, final draft, adoption as 

whole, vote.-.4378-4404 

Constitution, final draft, reading. 

4313-4348, 4357-4370 
Constitution, final draft. Revision Com. 

report re .4307-4313 

Constitution, final draft, authenticating, 

resolution. 4404 

Constitution, future amendments (Int. 715), 

debate limiting.3125-3126, 3160, 3168-3169 

Constitution, fut^ure amendments (Int. 715), 

debate .3133-3150, 3160-3194 

Constitution, future amendments (Int. 

715), debate on 3rd rdg. amended. . . .3687-3700 
Constitution, future amendments (Int. 

715), final passage, vote.3934-3941 

Constitution, printing draft. Com. rep... 4227 

Constitution, submitting (Int. 145), to 

third reading . 3194 

Constitution, submitting. Com. on. 3989 

Constitution, take effect (Int. 145), final 

passage, vote .3710-3717 

Constitution, taking effect (Int. 145), 

Revision Com. report.3466-3467 

Constitution, uniform capitalization in, 

resolution .-. 241-242 

Constitutional amendments, vote upon, 

data. 152 

Constitutional amendments, vote upon. 

Library Com. report. 254 

Constitutional convention commission, 

report of . 248 

Constitutional Convention Commission, 

report, publish . 277 

Constitutional Convention Commission, 

supplemental report, printing. 287 

Contingent Expenses Com. report. 438 

Contingent Expenses Com., report. 418 

Contingent Expenses Com., report. 450 

Contractors, public, extra pay (Int. 289), 

debate.723-727, 729, 750-759, 814-816 

Contractors, public, extra pay (Int. 289), 

final passage.•..2321-2329 

Convention, completed work, time limit.. 568-569 
Convention delegates, certificate of elec¬ 
tion, requesting . 3989 

Convention documents, etc., mailing list. 105 

Convention employees, certain, retention 

30 days after adjournment. 4450 

Convention employees, certain, compensa¬ 
tion . 4449 

Convention employees, resol. of thanks to 4450 

Convention employees, supervision . 157-158 

Convention, final adjournment of. 4460 

Convention officers, minor . 126 

Convention, organization of, officers, etc. 3-23 

Convention papers, books, etc., disposi¬ 
tion, resolution. 4449 

Convention proceedings, documents, copies 

of. 178 

Convention, progress, statement by Presi¬ 
dent . 1933 

Convention record, printing, additional 

copies . 1032 


Subject Page 

Convention, records, documents, etc., in¬ 
dexing, resolution.4448-4449 

Convention sessions, changing, resol.... 862, 876 

Convention sessions, changing, resol. 3038 

Convention, sessions of, time, resol.. 78-80, 94-96 
Convention sessions, Saturdays, attend¬ 
ance . 744 

Convention sessions, Saturdays, discus¬ 
sion .782-783, 790-792, 877-879 

Convention sessions, Mondays, Saturdays, 

discussion. 684-694 

Convention sessions, 2 daily, rules re¬ 
port .....1031-1032 

Convention sessions, change, discussion.. 1314 
Convention stationery, supplies, disposi¬ 
tion, resol. 4449 

Convention system of nominations, 

speeches, printing . 872 

Convention, work of, restricting. 179 

Corporations Com. report (Int. 122). 143 

180, 337, 388, 492, 504, 608, 648, sub¬ 
mitting . 977-978 

Corporations, cumulative voting, Int. 122, 

disagree with com. report. 980-981 

Cortland, home rule memorial. 875 

Corrections, certain amendments. 461-462 

Cortland, home rule, memorial. 698 

Corning, home rule memorial. 875 

Counties debts (Int. 713), minority rep.. 1437 

Counties, debts (Int. 713), final passage, 

vote .3919-3926 

Counties, debts (Int. 713), Revision Com. 

report . 3912 

County, debts (Int. 713), debate. 

2887-2901, 2953-2955 
Counties, debts (Int. 713), debate on 

third reading.3638-3640, 3643-3645, 

3834-3840 

County courts (Int. 718), Com. report.. 1871 
County government (Int. 721), debate on 

third reading .3959-3962 

County government (Int. 721), final pas¬ 
sage, vote .3962-3970 

County government (Int. 721), Revision 

Com. report . 3863 

County government, survey.20-21, 32-35 

County governm’t (Int. 721), Com. rpt.. 2383 

County Government (Int. 721), debate.3718-3743 
County government (Int. 721), Com. of 

Whole report . 3759 

County government (Int. 717), made spe¬ 
cial order .3599, 3990 

County officers, removal (Int. 717), re- 

poii-ting. 1762 

County treasurers, pay, data, request 

for. 202 

County treasurers, fees, etc., data.... 152 
County Treasurers, data, from Comp’r. .. 322-323 
County treasurers, data, resol. for, adopt. 363-364 
Court of Appeals, appeals, request for in¬ 
formation concerning . 72 

Court of Appeals, cases, data. 135-137 

Court of Appeals, cases, data, communica¬ 
tion . 258 

Court of Appeals, cases, data, communica¬ 
tion, committee report. 286 

Court of Appeals, cases in, record of.. . . 118, 119 
Court of Appeals, Workmen’s compen., 

opinion, printing . 790 

Cramer, C. F., memorial re civil service.. 3498 









































































Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


227 


Subject Page 

Cumulative voting, Int. 122, disagree with 

com. report . 980-981 

Data, various, requested by Convention, 

disposition of, discussion. 464-465 

Debate, limit upon. Rules Com. report.1436 

Debate, State Budget (Int. 709) limiting.. 1667 

Debts (Int. 713), debate_2887-2901, 2953-2955 

Debts (Int. 713), limiting debate.2573-2574 

Debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd reading. . 

3638-3640, 3643-3645, 3834-3840 
Debts, cities, villages, etc. (Int. 713), 

Revision Com. report. 3912 

Debts, cities, villages, etc. (Int. 713), 

final passage, vote.3919-3926 

Debts, state (Int. 705), special order.. . .975,10131 

Debts, state (Int. 705), debate.1252-1314 

Debts, state (Int. 705) final passage, 

vote .2290-2299 

Decoration Day, Convention recess. 288-289 

Decoration Day, recess of Convention- 266,274 

Denison, Charles M., memorial. 506 

Document 28, correction.1434 

Document 35, correction.1434 

Documents, of Convention, distribution. . . 130, 131 
Documents, of convention, revising, in¬ 
dexing . 4448-4449 

Documents, supt., regulations. 226 

Drafting Clerk, Rev. Com., apputg.1069,1016 

Drinking cups, sanitary, acquiring, resol. 408 

Dunkirk common council, home rule memo¬ 
rial .1566 

Education Com. report, printing. 891 

Education commissioner, resol. of thanks 

for assistance . 4449 

Education, state function, Int. 698, de¬ 
bate.. 936-948, 982-997, 1070-1108, 2250-2255 
Education, state function (Int. 698), de¬ 
bate on third reading. 3515-3524 

Education, state function (Int. 698), re¬ 
committing .3523-3524 

Elections, absent electors (Int. 711), 

minority report . 1249 

Elections, absent electors (Int. 711), 

debate.1546-1563, 1726-1734, 1736-1756 

Elections, absent electors ^nt. 711), to 

3rd reading . 1758-1759 

Elections, absent electors (Int. 711), 

amended . 3467 

Elections, absent electors (Int. 711), 

amend^, debate .3498—3504 

Elections, absent electors (Int. 711), Re¬ 
vision Com. rep. 3637 

Elections (Int. 711), final passage, de¬ 
bate .*•.3660—3671 

Elections (Int. 711), final passage, 

yote .3671—3680 

Elections, absent electors, registration, 

(Int. 42, 91, 127, 247, 285, 372), debate 903-924 

Elections (Int. 686), debate.2923-2952 

Elections (Int. 686), limiting debate..2573-2574 
Elections, literacy test (Int. 686), 

debate ..2901-2919 

Elections, literacy test (Int. 686), dis¬ 
agree with Com. of Whole report.3040^-3060 

Elections, memorial re short ballot, E. R. 

Brown .2234-2237 

Elections, party conventions (Int. 4), 
committee opinion . 


845 


Subject Page 

Elections, party nom., Int. 699, debate. . 

1037-1043, 1064- 

Elections, regis. of voters, working in 

Washington. 196-197 

Elections, short ballot, memorial, Roch¬ 
ester Engineers . 321-323 

Elections, short ballot (Int. 716), de¬ 
bate .3204-3268, 3284-3323, 3336-3363, 

3372-3496 

Elections (Int. 716), debate limited. . . .3335, 3364 
Elections, short ballot (Int. 716), amend. 3533 
Elections (Int. 716), debate on third 

reading, amended .3860-3862 

Elections (Int. 716), final passage, 

vote .3941-3959 

Elections (Int. 716), Revision Com. rep. 3761 
Elections (Int. 716), Revision Com. rep. 3912 

Elevator service, Capitol, hours. 260-261 

Emergency message, abolish, debate.... 759-771 
Emergency message, abolishing (Int. 78), 

debate . 816-823 

Emergency message (Int. 78), final pass¬ 
age, vote .2239-2250 

Employees, laws for (Int. 194), made 

special order . ' 3709 

Employees welfare, Int. 194, minority re¬ 
port . 978-979 

Elmira, home rule memorial. 875 

Employees of convention, certain, com¬ 
pensation . 4449 

Employees, Convention certain, term.... 574 
Engineers, Society of. Eastern N. Y., com¬ 
munication . 258 

Engineer, State, communication. 848 

Engineer, state, memorial re. 371 

Engineers, Committee of memorial. 3498 

Expenses, convention, statement of. 247 

Extra compen, granting (Int 289), de¬ 
bate .723-727, 729, 750-759, 814-815 

Extra compen. (Int. 289), final passage, 

vote.:.2321-2329 

Final draft of constitution prepared by 

Revision Com., reading. . .4313-4348, 4357-4370 
Pinal draft of constitution, prepared by 
Revision Com., adoption as whole, 

vote.4378-4404 

Final draft of constitution, Revision Com. 

report re.4307-4313 

Finance Com. report (Int. 709), state 

budget .1134-1150 

Finance, budget (Int. 709), debate. 

1567-166)2, 1672-1726 

Finance (Int. 709), amending. 2000 

Finance, state budget (Int. 709), final 

passage.;.2310-2321 

Finance Com. report, introduction, print¬ 
ing . 891 

Finance Com. report (Int. 705), special 

order.975, 1030 

Finances, state debts (Int. 705), debate, 

amendments, etc.1252-1314 

Finance, state debts (Int. 705), final 

passage.2290i-2299 

Firemen, memorial re jury duty, civ. ser., 

etc. 371 

Food inspection (Int. 131), debate on 

third reading . 4101-4107 

Food inspection (Int. 131) made special 

order. 3709 







































































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Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


Subject Page 

Pood inspection (Int. 131), debate. .. .3791-3803 
Pood inspection (Int. 131), lost, vote. . .4107-4115 
Pood inspection (Int. 131), Revision 

amendment.3863-3864 

Pood inspection (Int. 131), Revision 

Com. report . ■39'12 

Pood inspection (Int. 131), to tliird 

reading. 3804 

Forests. (See “ Conservation.”) 

Port Orange Court Dio. 55. 506 

Poster, H. P.., memorial...— . 506 

Predonia, rmeanorial, T.e^tax iexemptions. 412 

Friends, :Society of, memorial. .. 302, 444 

Priends, Soodet'y of, unemorial, capital 

punishment, military service. 961-962 

Pulton, city of, memorial. 733 

Pulton, home rule'memorial. 894 

Puture amendments ' (Int. 715), debate 

''limiting . 3125-3126 

Future amendments (Int. 715),'debate.3133-3150 
Future'amendments (Int. 715) , debate. 3160-3194 
Future amendments (Int. 715), debate 

on third reading amended.3687-^3700 

Future amendments (Tnt. 715), debate 

.'limited.-3160, '3168^3169 

Future amendments (Int. ‘715), final 

'passage, vote ..'3934-3941 

Future amendments (Int.'715) , ^levision 

Com. report . 3863 

Future amendments (Int.''715)„ Revimon 

Com. report . 3467 

Garfield, President Williams College, 

'floor privilege . 3717 

Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends. 781-782 

Glens Falls Chamber of Commerce. 811 

Gloversville, home rule memorial. 894 

Governor, impeachment of, convening for 

(Int. 291), debate.....828-842, 844 

Governor’s salary (Int. ’702), .amend¬ 
ing .•..40.50-4051 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), debate. . . . 

'3772-3791, 4050-4053 
Governor’s salary (Int. 702), debate on 

third reading .. 3804 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), debate on 

third reading, amended .4099—4101 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), letter from 

Governor. 4042 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), made 

special order ... 3709 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), Revision 

Com. report .4098, 4173 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), Revision 

Com. report . 3863 

Governor’s salary (Int. 702), final pas¬ 
sage .4173-4181 

Governor, vacancy, filling (Int 385), 

debate. 1217 

Governor, succession to (Int. 385), 

amended. 350'6 

Governor, succession to (Int. 385) Re¬ 
vision Cum. re(i3. 3637 

Governor, succession to (Int. 385), 

final passage .^53-3660 

Governor, term, J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., 

communication .972-973 

Governor, vacancies, order of succession, 

etc., discussion . 771-772 


Subject Page 

G. A. R. Convention, recognition by con¬ 
vention ..471-472,477 

Gray, Judge John Clinton, death, resol.. 533-534 
Great Charter celebrat’n, ;arrangem’ts, 

committee report.. 364 

Great Charter, celebration, resolution... '32 

Great c Charter, celebration, resolution.. 235-238 
Great Charter celebration, arrange¬ 
ments, committee report.. 273 

Great Charter celebration, inviting Presi¬ 
dent . 259-260 

Great charter celeb., address, print.,'resol -447-448 
Great Charter cel., communication from 

President ..... . .. 353 

Grinnell, Frank W., memorial. 790 

Hayes, J. Noble, memorial. 506 

Hearings, 'Certain, printing as document '398 

Hearings, by committees, calendar, reso¬ 
lution . 200 

Hearings, committees, calendar. 235 

Hemstreet, William, memorial. 510 

Herkimer county super., memorial, high¬ 
way bonds ...<.... 321-322 

Higgins, Charles-M., memorial. 412 

Highway, appro'priations for (Int. 719), 

limiting debate .2573-2574 

Highways, appropriations, private local 

(Int. 719), debate.3013-3030 

Highway, appropriations {Tnt. 719), de¬ 
bate oji 3rd reading, amended. 3684-3687 

Highways, appro. (Int. 719), final .pass- 

.age, vote on....3926-3934 

Highway moneys, apportionment, data, 

I resol. 137 

Highway moneys, apportionment, report 

on, request for . 106 

Highway moneys (Int. 31), debate... .3091-3133 
Highway moneys (Int. 31), debate limit¬ 
ing .3125-3126 

Highways (Int. 31), Revision Com. re¬ 
port . 3195 

Highways (Int. 31), final passage.3630-3637 

Home rule amendments, hearings, prefer¬ 
ence, precedence.275-276 

Home rule. Cities Com. report (Int. 712) . 1250 

Home Rule (Int. 712), debate.187.5-1910, 

1919-1949, 1958-1998, 2000-2080, 2817-2886 

Home Rule (Int. 712), quorum.1910-1919, 

1949-1955, 1979-1980 
Home Rule (Int. 712), recommitted. .2079-2080 
Home rule (Tnt. 712), minority report.. 1250 
Home Rule (Int. 712), additional copies, 

printing. 1436 

Home rule (Tnt 7.12), special order. 1762 

Home Rule (Int. 712), reptg. amended. 2487 
Home Rule (Int. 712), limiting debate.2573-2574 
Home Rule (Tnt. 712), debate on 3rd read¬ 
ing, amended.361^3629 

Home rule (Int. 712), Revision Com. re¬ 
port . 3760 

Home rule (Int. 712), final passage, 

vote.3825-3834 

Home rule memorials (see “ Memorials ”). 

Hornell, home rule memorial. 875 

Hudson, home rule, memorial. 698 

Impeachment, by legislature, convening 

for (Int. 291), debate.828-842, 844 

Impeachment (Int. 291), amending, de¬ 
bate .2337-2354 






































































Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


229 


Subject Page 

Impeachment (Int. 291), strike out sur¬ 
plusage .3532-3533 

Impeachment (Int. 291), final passage.350G-3515 
Indexing convention record, documents, 

etc, resol.4448-4449 

Indiana Game Bird Society, memorial. . 444 

Indians, Com. on, report, submitting.... 979 
Indians, tribal courts (Int. 707), debate. 1218-1221, 

1531-1546 

Indians, tribal courts (Tut. 707), consid¬ 
eration, requesting. 1252' 

Indian courts (Int. 707), final passage, 

vote.2329-2337 

Indictments by grand juries, data, resol. 482, 684, 

789 

Insane (Int. 371), made special order.. 2080 

Insane (Int. 371), debate.2799-2816 

Insane (Int. 371), limiting debate.2573-2574 

Insane (Int. 371), final passage vote... 3606-3613 
Insurance Com. report, Int. 474, 580, 581, 

submitting. 978 

Intra-City Civic League, memorial. 481 

Ithaca, home rule memorial. 962 

Jamestown, home rule memorial. 962 

Jewett, Vincent, sectarian schools, aid, 

memorial.*. 1566 

Johnstown, city boards of education, me¬ 
morial . 1566 

Johnstown, home rule memorial. 894 

Johnstown Com. Council, memor’l from. 443-444 

Journal of Convention, reading. 132 

Journal of convention, revising, idex- 

ing .4448-4449 

Journal, on members’ desks, statement.. 892 
Judfires, election, Tammany memorial.; . . 369-371 

Judiciary (Int. 718), Com. report.1863-1874 

Judiciary (Int. 718), made special order. 2080 

Judiciary (Int. 718), debate.2357-2379 

2384-2487, 2491-2573, 2576-2607, 2610- 

2652, 2678-2795 

Judiciary (Tnt. 718), debate on 3rd rdg . 3578-3599 
Judiciary (Int. 718), final passage, 

vote.3816-3825 

Judiciary (Int. 718), Revision Com. re¬ 
port . 3760 

Judiciary (Int. 718), limiting debate. .2490-2491 
Judiciary (Int. 718), quorum, roll calls, 

etc.2652-2675 

Judiciary, elective, memorial favoring... 1566 
Judiciary, memorial re from William ^Ic- 

Adoo. 3038 

Judiciarjq single court. Bar Ass’n memo¬ 
rial . 106 

Jurors, Commissioners (Int. 718), Com. 

report. 1871 

Jury duty, exempt., abolish, memori.al.. . 332 

Jury duty, exemp.. firemen’s memorial. . . 371 

Jury exemptions (Tnt. 7T8), Com. rep.. .1873-1874 

Jury trials. Tammany memorial. 369-371 

Jurv, verdict by two-thirds, communica¬ 
tion . 198-199 

Kings Co. Records Commissioner, data, 

communication . 927-928 

Kingston, memorial . 856 

Klaber, Leonard, mem. re taxpayers act. 397 
Labor, State Federation of, memorial, 

printing . 469,675 

I^abor. (See “Workmens Compensa¬ 
tion.”) 

Lackawanna, home rule memorial. 962 


Subject Page 

Laws complete in themselves (Int. 275), 

debate . 824-828 

Laws, delays (Int. 718), Com. report.. 1863 

Leases, agric. lands, discussion. 511-530 

Legislative Index Pub. Co., memorial.. .. 311 

Legislative Index Pub. Co., indexes. 1671 

Legislative librarian, resol. of thanks to. 4452 
Legislative Organization Com., report. . 450-453 
Legislative Powers Com. report... .415, 417-418 
Legislative powers (Int. 290), debate. . . . 771-772 
Legislative Powers (Tnt. 290), amended. 3467 
Legislative Powers (Int. 290), final pas¬ 
sage .. ..3645-3653 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), Special 

Order. 3599 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), amended 

3762-3771 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), Cora, of 

Whole report, third reading. 3759 

Legislative Powers (Int. 606), debate.3743-3758 

T^egislative Powers (Tnt. 696), disagree 
with Com. of Whole rep., amended. . .3759-3771 
Legislative Powers (Int. 696), final pas¬ 
sage, vote .3970-3977' 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), Re\’ision 

amendment. 3863 

Legislative Powers (Int. 696), Revision 

Com. report . 3912 

Legislators’ salarv (Int. 697), final pas¬ 
sage .‘. ..3524-3532 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), Revision 

Com. report . 3195 

Legislators’ salary, increase (Tnt. 697), 

majority and minority reports, etc... 797-800, 

803. 804 

T^iegislators’ salarv (Tnt. 697), debate. . 1190-1216, 

3069-3090 

Legislators’ salary (Tnt. 697), Com. of 

^\llole report, vote on.1221-1231 

Legislators’ salary (Tnt. 697), reconsider, 

vote on .1234—1245 

Legislators’ salary (Int. 697), recom¬ 
mitted, debate .2278-2290 

Legislature, annual cost of. data. 143 

TiCgislature, biennial sessions, memorial. 195 

Legislature, composition, sessions, reso¬ 
lution . 240 

Legislature, cost. Li bra rv Com. report. . . 254 

Legislature, convening, impeachment (Int. 

291), debate.'.828-842, 844, 2337-2354 

Legislature, convening, impeachment (Int. 

291), final passage.3506-3515 

Legislature, laws granting no privileges, 

com. memo.872, 873-874 

TiCgislature of 1916, com. to assist, resol .4450-4451 
Legislature, two houses, committee re¬ 
port . 340—352 

Legislative, two houses, com. resol., tak¬ 
ing, uj) .425-431, 483-503 

j ibrary Com., reports. 462-464 

Library Com., data from Com. clerks... 4172 

TJeut.-Gov., vacancy. (8!ee Governor.) 

Literacy test (Tnt. 686), Com. of Whole 

report, postpone action.* 3032 

Literacy test (Tnt. 686), d<^*bate.2923-2952 

Literacy test (Int. 686), limiting 

debate .25-73-2574 

Ta'ttle Falls, home rule memorial. 962 

I^iving wage (Int. 193), Com. of Whole 

report. 4286 






























































23C 


Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


Subject Page 


Living wage (Int. 193), discharge Com. 


Living wage (Int. 193), made special 


Lockport, memorial . 811 

Locomotive engineers, etc., short ballot, 

judiciary. 1566 

Lockwood, Samson, floor privilege. 3717 

Long Island Baptist Asso’tion, memorial 510 

Lunacy Commission (Int. 371), made 

special order. 2080 

Lunacy commission (Int. 371), limiting 

debate .2573-2574 

Lunacy Com. (Int. 371), final passage.. 3606-3613 
Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

minority report . 979 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

Com. of Whole report, favorable. 3911 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

debate on third reading.4116-4131 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

debate.. . 3873-3890 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

final passage, vote.4131-4141 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

made special order. 3709 

Manufacturing in dwellings (Int. 407), 

Revision Com. report. 3977 

Mayors conference, memorial. 1068 

Mayors conference, memorial re home rule 3037 
McAdoo, William, memorial re judiciary. 3038 
Memoranda by committees, re bills, print¬ 
ing . 857-858 

Memorials: 

Agricultural organizations, various.... 467 

Albany, city of, home rule. 894 

Albany, home rule. 775 

Albany, Schenectady and Mechanics- 

ville . 790 

Amsterdam chamber of commerce, home 

rule . 1566 

Baptist Ministers Conference. 698 

Batavia. 811 

Beacon, city of . 743 

Binghamton, city of, home rule. 927 

Bronx Board of Trade. 468 

Bronx county registrar. 457-458 

Buffalo Chamber of Com., re canals.. 2609 

Canal boat masters of Buffalo. 3805 

Canal lands, Buffalo, memorial. 2234 

Canandaigua . 813 

C. F. Cramer, re civil service. 3498 

Charles M. Denison. 506 

Citizens Hose Co. 509 

Citizens Union. 506 

S. B. Clarke. 412 

Cohoes Chamber of Commerce. 814 

Cohoes Board of Trade. 811 

College of the Church of Christ. 2798 

Committee of Engineers. 3498 

Compulsory vaccination . 412 

Compulsory vaccination introduction.. 397 

Corning, city of, home rule. 875 

Cortland, city of, home rule. 875 

Cortland, home rule. 698 

Dunkirk common council, home rule.. 1566 

Elmira, city of, home rule. 875 

Friends, Society of. 444 


Subject Page 

Memorials — continued: 

H. F. Foster. 506 

Fort Orange Court No. 55. 506 

Fulton, city of, home rule. 894 

Fulton, city of. 733' 

Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends.. . . 781-782 
Glens Falls Chamber of Commerce.. . . 811 

Gloversville, city of, home rule. 894 

Grinnell, Frank W. 790 

Wm. Hemstreet, communication. 510 

Herkimer county super., highway 

bonds . 321 

Home rule, city of Middletown. 457 

Hornell, city of, home rule. 875 

Hudson, home rule. 698 

Indiana Game Bird Society. 44a 

Interdenominational Com. on Educa¬ 
tion, of New York City. 412 

Intra-City Civic League. 481 

Ithaca, city of, home rule. 962 

Jamestown, city of, home rule. 962 

J. B. Bradley Hose Co. 509 

Jewett, Vincent, sectarian schools, aid 1566 

Johnstown, city of, home rule. 894 

Johnstown, city boards of education.. 1566 

Johnstown Common Council. 443-444 

.1. Noble Hayes. 506 

Kingston. 856 

Lackawanna, city of, home rule. 962 

Little Falls, city of, home rule. 962 

Lockport. 811 

Long Island Baptist Association. 510 

Louis J. Altkrug. 506 

Mayors Conference, home rule.1068, 3037 

McAdoo, William, judiciary. 3038 

Medico-Legal Society, surrogates. 1435 

Middletown, home rule. 697 

Murphy Grange Patrons of Husbandry. 697-698 
National Com. for Mental Hygiene 

re feeble-minded . 1035 

National Progressive Party. 510 

Newburgh, New Rochelle. 747 

N. Y. Board of Trade and Transpor’tion 510 , 

N. Y. Charities Organization Society. 3988 

New York Police Comr. 1133 

N. Y. .‘Society for Prevention of Cruelty 

to Children . 506 

New York State Tax and Transporta¬ 
tion Reform Association . 443 

Niagara Falls, city of, home rule. 962 

North Tonawanda, city of, memorial. . 733 

Ogdensburg, home rule. 698 

Olean, city of, home rule. 894 

Oneonta, city of, home rule... 875 

Oneida, city of, home rule. 894 

Oswego, home rule. 698 

Plattsburgh, home rule. 698 

Port Jervis, home rule. 698 

Professional Engineers of Rochester.. 321-322 
Rochester Cham, of Com., re short bal 1035 

Rochester, canals . 3038 

Rome Chamber of Commerce, home 

rule . 962 

Rome, citizens of, home rule memorial. 972 

Short ballot . 1067 

Society of Friends, capital punishment, 
militarv service . 961-962 


Spanish War veterans, civil service.. 1246-1247, 
1317, 1434-1435, 1565-1566, 1761, 2123, 3498 






























































































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231 


Subject Page 

Memorials — continued: 

State Federation of Labor. 412 

State Federation of Labor, printing.. . 469 

State Police, Com. on. 506 

Syracuse. 811 

Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, home 

rule . 962 

Tammany, printed as document. 438 

Tammany Society, presentation. 369-371 

Tax exemptions . 412 

Tenants’ Union . 3334 

Tonawanda Citizens’ Meeting. 814 

Union League Club of New York. 444 

Utica, Department of Legislation. 1015 

Voters League of New York. 444 

Voting machines, city of Middletown.. 457 

Voting machines, town of Wellsville.. 458 

Voting machines, abolishing . 444 

W. T. Rehm. 506 

Western N. Y. volunteer firemen. 1318 

VMiite, Pierrepont,. 2798 

Yonkers common council, home rule 

memorial . 972 

Messenger, appointing.. 465 

Messenger, appointing . 785 

Messengers, appointing, etc., resol. 863 

Messenger, L. V. Gardner, transferring... 476 

Messengers, clerks, etc., certain, transfer¬ 
ring . 734 

Meyer, Wm. S., memorial. 302 

Middletown, home rule memorial. 697 

Military Affairs Com. report. 3872 

Military Affairs Com. report, printing. 4098 

Military service. Society of Friends, 

memorial . 961-962 

Military service, not compulsory, com¬ 
munication . 198 

Militia (Int. 531), debate.1528-1530 

Militia (Int. 531), final passage, vote.2255-2263 

Militia (Int. 534), debate.1531, 1545 

Militia (Int. 534), final passage, vote.2263-2270 

Militia (Int. 535), debate. 1531 

Militia (Int. 535), final passage, vote.. .2270-2278 

Minor officers, appointment of. 46, 56 

Minor offices, committee report. 44-45 

Murphy Grange Patrons of Husbandry, 

memorial. 697-698 

National Com. for Mental Hygiene, memo¬ 
rial, re feeble-minded. 1035 

National Progressive Party, memorial... 510 

New Rochelle, city of, memorial. 747 

Newburgh, city of, memorial. 747 

Newspaper reporters, facilities, committee 

rooms, documents, etc. 313 

Newspapermen, resol. of thanks to. ..... 4452 

Newspaper reporters deceased, resolution 320 

N. Y. Board of Trade and Transportation 510 

N. Y. Charities Organization Society, me¬ 
morial . 3988 

New'York City, Commissioner of Records, 


N. Y. City, condemnation pro., data, resol. 510 

New York city, gov’t, survey of.20-21,32-35 

New York City Interdenominational Com. 

on Education, memorial . 412 

New York city Police Commissioner, mem 1133 
N. Y. City, rep. in Legislature, discus¬ 


sion, vote .. ..535-568, 574-669 


Subject Page 

New York Marine News Company, com¬ 
munication . 258 

N. Y. State Chamber of Com., memorial.. 194-195 
N. Y. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to 

Children, memorial . . 506 

New York State Fed. of Labor, memorial 412 
Niagara Falls, home rule memorial.... 962 

Night sessions of Convention, resol. 534-536 

Nominations hy convention system, 

speeches, printing . 872 

Nominations,* by pol. parties, Int. 699, 

debate .1037-1043, 1064 

Norton, H. J., leave.1017,1069 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), de¬ 
bate .3890-3904 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), Com. 

of Whole report, favorable. 3911 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), final 

passage, vote .4141-4149 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), made 

special order . 3709 

Occupational diseases (Int. 714), Re¬ 
vision Com. report. 3977 

Officers of Convention, minor. 126 

Officers, of Convention, minor, election.. 16 

Official oath, Int. 88, debate. 929-936 

Official referees (Int. 718), communica¬ 
tion . 3334 


Officials, public, extra compen., prohib., 

(Int. 289), debate_723-727, 750-759, 814-816 

Officials, extra compen. (Int. 289), final 


passage.2321-2329 

Ogdensburg, home rule, memorial. 698 

Olean, home rule memorial. 894 

Oneonta, home rule memorial. 875 

Oneida, home rule memorial. 894 

Oswego, home rule, memorial. 698 


Pages of Convention, chief of, appointing. 975-976, 

1319 


Pardon Board (Int. 269), made special 

order.3709-3710 

Party conventions (Int. 4), committee 

opinion, disposition . 848-851 

Penalties, fines, societies receiving, data, 

resolution. 260 

Penalties, fines, societies receiving, N. Y. 

city, resolution. 286-287 

Plattsburgh, home rule, memorial. 698 

Police Comr., N. Y. City, memorial.... 1133 

Port Jervis, home rule, memorial. 698 

Praver Convention session, clergymen, in¬ 
viting . 295-296 

Prayer, Conv. sess., inviting clergymen.. 32!3'-324 
Prayer, convention, sessions, clergymen, 

comp. 398 

President, clerk to, appointing. 31, 32 

President, nominating speech by Mr. Low 5-7 
President of convention, resol, of thanks 


to. 4457 

President of convention, valedictory ad¬ 
dress .4457-4460 

President, speech by Mr. L. M. Martin 

seconding nomination . 7, 8 

President, speech of acceptance.12, 13,14,15 

Printer, to convention, resol. of thanks. . 4453 

Printing address to the people. 4448 

Printing, amendments, etc., additional 

copies. 4405 

Printing, amendments, delegates’ copies. 248-249 
Printing, Int. 679, additional copies. 890 
















































































232 


Stenographic Record, Index by’ Subjects' 


Subject Page 

Printing, capital, punishment hearing.; .. 792-798 
Printing, certain hearings, as document. 398 

Printing, committee on. appointing*,.-- 25 

Printing, committee memoranda'-re bills.. 8517-858' 

Printing Com., report upon work of. 901 

Printing, communicatioui from Printing. 

Board . 245-25 

Printing, Constitution draft, Com. re¬ 


printing contract, execution of by Print¬ 
ing Board. 67 

Printing;, contract for,, authorizing. 31 

Printing, Convention bills. . . .. 1.4)1' 

Printing conven. documentsij etc., num-- 

ber of: . 186-188 

Printing, Convention record, additional 

copies . 1032 

Printing, records, amendments,, additional 

copies- . 1251 

Printing, Court of Appeals opinion,* 

Workmen’s compensation . 790 

Printing, documents, inquiry regarding; 96, 97. 
Printing, final draft of constitution, 10,000 

copies.4405—440i6 

Printing, Finance Com. report. 891 

Printing; Great Cliarter celebration; ad¬ 
dresses, resolutions . . 447-448 

Printing, Journals, committee reports, 

etc., number .. 202-207^ 

Printing; proceedings, documents, etc.*, 

Pules 70„ 71 . 211-212 

Printing;, proceedings, documents,, num¬ 
ber, distribution; . 226-235 

Printing, proposed amendments, extra 

copies. 214 

Printing, report of Committee on. 30, 31 

Printing (Int. 712), additional copies. . .. 1436' 

Printing (Int. 718-),.additional copies. . . . 2081 

Priniting, revised record, journal, docu¬ 
ments, etc., resol.4448-4440 

Printing, Records Xo. 38 and 40*, addi¬ 
tional copdesi. 2610 

Printing, Mr. Root’s short ballot speech 3760 
Printing, speeches' on nominations by 

convention system . 872 

Printing speeches before Suffrage Com. 

hearing. 1310 

Prison Labor (Int. 465), made special 

order.3700-3710 

Prisoners, State, number, pardons, data, 

resolution. 240 

Prisoners, pardons, data, printing. 450 

Prisoners, pardons, data^ resolution. 255 

Prisoners, pardons, data from Gov. com¬ 
munication . 372 

Prisoners, pardons, data, printing as 

document; resol. 430 

Privileges, granting, com. memo. re.... 872,873 

Privileges (Int. 701), special order. 1836 

Privileges ('Int. 701), debate.. 1802-1860, 2081- 

2121 

Privilege (Int. 701), to 3rd reading. ..2121-2122 


Public improvements, appropriations for 

(Int. 710), limiting' debate.2573-2574 

Public Service Commission, Com, report, 

etc...962-967 

Public Service Com. (Lnt. 706), debate... 2142r- 


2151, 216.5-2198^ 2202-2232, 2986-3013 


Subject Page 

Public Service Com. (Int. 706), advanc¬ 
ing to 3rd reading, discussion.3031-3032 

Public Service (lnt., 706'), liinitmg’ 

debate . 2573-2574 

Public Service (Int. 706), debate on, 

third reading,, amended.. 3682-3684 

Public Service (Int. 706), recommitting. 4050 
' Public Service (Int.. 706), Revision Com. 

report. 3863 

Public Works, superintendent of, com¬ 
munication . 1015 

. Quorum, ascertainiing,. roll.-call. . 3151-3150, 3195- 
! 3203, 3269-32.70’, 3325-3333, 3364-3372, 3534- 

3542, 3500-3606, 3701-3700, 3864-3872,. 3912- 
3010, 4042-4050, 4001-4008, 4150-4166, 4220- 
j 4227, 4300^4307, 4350^4357, 4406-4414 

Quorum, home rule (Int. 712),. debate.1010- 

1919,. 1949-1955 

Quorum, lack'of, discussion, procedure.. 805-809 

879-888 

Quorum, lack of; adjournment.. 811-812 

Quorum, lack of, roll calls, rulings. ...2652-2675 
Railroad engineers, conductors, etc., 

memorial by . 1566 

Reapportionment . 425-431 

Reapportionment (Int. 722), Com. report. 3110 

Reapportionment (dnt. 722)., amending.4119-4T21 
Reapportionment (Ifit. 722), Com. of 

Whole repi disagree; vote.4034-4041 

RJeapportionment (Int. 722), debate. .. 3904-3911 
Reapportionment (Int. 722), debate. . . .3991-4034 
Reapportionment (Int. 722j , made spe¬ 
cial order . 3709 

Reapportionment (Int. 722)», Revision 

Com. report .4115-4116, 4173 

Reapporiionment (Int. 722), final pass¬ 
age, vote .4181-4192 

Reapportionment (Lnt. 673) com. report. 530 
Reapportionment (Int 673), adverse rep., 

vote . 649-669 

Reapportionment, X. Y.. Tribune attack, 

statement re . 674 

Reapportionment,. X. Y. City’s- rep., dis- ' 

cuss.ion,,vote'...535^568; 574-670- 

Records, books,, etc., of convention, dispo¬ 
sition, resol. 4440 

Record of convention, revising, indexing. 4448-4440 

Referees,,ofiicial. inquiry regarding. 100 

Referees, official (Int. 718) Com. report 1865 
Registration, citizens working in Wash¬ 
ington . 196-107 

Registration, absent electors, Int. 42, 91, 

12.7, 247, 285, 372, debate.-. 903-924 

Registration (Lnt. 711), Com. of Whole re¬ 
port, 3d reading...1758-1759 

Registration (Int. 711),, debate..1546-1563, 

1726-1734, 1736-1756 

Registration (Int.. 71L) , amended. 3467 

-Registration (Int. 711), amended,, de¬ 
bate ....3408-3504 

Registration (Int. 711), Revision Com. rep. 3637 
Registration (Int. 711), final passage, de¬ 
bate .3660^3671 

Registration (Int. 711.), final passage, 

vote .3671-3680 

Rehm, W. T., memorial. 506 

Resolution from committees, proc-, dis¬ 
cussion of . 340-352 

Resolution introd., proc., resolution. 356 






























































Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


233 


Subject Page 

Resolution, presentation in duplicate. ... 248 

Resolutions,, procedure, Rule 50._... 734-735 

Resolution of sympathy for Mr. Rhees-. . 776 

Revised constitution, 100 copies to each 

delegate. 4451 

Revised constitution, delivery to Secy. 

of State .". 4456 


Revised constitution, final draft, adoption 

as whole, vote.. ... . .4378-4404 

Revised constitution, final draft, read¬ 
ing .4313-4348, 4357-4370 

Revised eonstitiition, manner, of submis¬ 
sion, Com. rep., debate. .4414-4428 

Revised constitution, prescribing manner 

of submitting and autlienticating. .... 4428 

Revised constitution, signing.4451-4452 

Revision Com. rep. re final draft of coiir 

stitution.4307-4313 

Revision Com., resolution of thanks to. . 4449 

Rochester Cham, of Com., mem. re short 

ballot . 1035 

Rochester, Engineers, memorial. 321-322 

Rochester, memorial re canals. 3038 

Rome, home rule memorial. 972 

Rome Chamber of Commerce, home rule 

memorial . 962 

Rule 32, proposed amendment.... 416-417 

Rule 50, amending, resolution. 356 

Rule No. 72, amending . 157-158 

Rules, adopting . 17-20 

Rules, amendment, to-.. 66 

Rules 70j 71, amending. 226-235 

Rules, additional copies, print., resol.. . 372. 

Rules Com., notice.4156-4157 

Rules Committee, report by, discussion, 

etc. .. 40-44 

Rules Com. report. Civil Service, dis¬ 
agree .4229-4237 

Rules, suspending, notice. 4156-4157 

Rules Com. report, convention sessions. . 1031 

Rules Com. report, G. A. R. Convention.. 477 

Rules Com. report. Rule 32, amending.. 478-479 
Rules, printing as amended, resolution.. 786-787 

Rules report, debate, limiting. 1436 

Rules, rule 32, amending, com. reports, 

procedure . 478-479 

Rules suspension, notice, Rule 56, amend¬ 
ing . 477-478 


Rulings by chair, comment' upon, state¬ 
ment . 879 

Saratoga Springs^ resol. of thanks to.. .. 510-511 
Saturdav sessions of Convention, discus¬ 
sion .782-783, 790-792, 862, 876, 877, 879, 1998 
Secretary of Convention, election of.... 15 

Secretary of State, census data.3988-3989 

Secretary of State, data re 1915 census. 4453-4455 

Secretary of State, communication. 789 

Secretary of State, com. to notify, rep. . 4456 

Secretary of State, delivery of Revised 

constitution to ..4451, 4456 

Secretary of State, notification of time 

for delivery of revised constitution... 4453 

Secretary of State, speech opening C6n- 

vcntion . 3,4 

Serial bonds (iVit. 713), debate.2953-2955 

Serial bonds- (Tnt. 713), limiting de¬ 
bate .2573-2574 

Sessions of convention. Rules Com. report 677 

Sheltering Arms, memorial. 222-223 

Short ballot, mem. Roch. Cham, of Com. 1035 


Subject Page 

Short ballot, memorials re.1067-1068^ 1566 

Short ballot (Int. 716), Com. report... 1734—1735 
Short ballot (Int. 716), consid’n, time 

of .... 2081 

Short ballot, memorial by E. R. Brown.2234—^237 

Short ballot (Int. 716), minority reports. 1734- 

1736 

Short ballot, state depts., reorg. (Int. 

716), made special order, debate. .. .3033-3035 
Short ballot. State officers (Int. 716), special 

order, changing .3039, 3061-3069 

Short ballot (int. 716), debate.. 3204-3268, 3284- 
3323, 3336-3363, 3372-3496 
Short ballot (Int. 716), debate limited.3335, 3364 

Short ballot (Jut. 716), amend. 3533 

Short ballot (Int. 716), debate' on 3rd 

reading, amended .3860-3862. 

Short ballot (Int.. 7.16),. final passage, 

vote.3941-3959 

Short ballot (Int. 716), Revision Com. 

report. 3761 

Short ballot (Int. 716), Revision Com. 

report . 3912 

Signing, revised constitution.4451-4452 

Sinking funds, data, printing. 740 

Sinking funds, data from Comptroller, 

printing. 802 

Sinking-funds. (See “Finance.”) 

Social welfare program, discharge com., 

notice . 3641 

Spanish War veterans, civil service, 
memorials ..1246-1247 


1317, 1318) 1434-1435) 1565-1566, 1761, 2123 
Spanish War Veterans Civil Seiwice 

Ass’n, memorial . 3498 

Spanish War veterans, civil service, me¬ 
morial . 3498 

Spanish War veterans. Civil Service 

com. report, disagree.4167-4171 

Spanisli War veterans, Civil Service 

Com. ren. disagree..4229-4237 

Spanish War veterans (Int. 29), sus¬ 
pend rules, notice . 4267 

Speaker of Assembly, salary, discussion. 800-801 
Special orders, preference, procedure. .. 1251-1252 
Spencer Trask memorial dedication at 

Saratoga, invitation . 436-437 

State budget. Finance Com. report. ... 1134-1150 
State budget (Int. 709), minority report. 1249 

State budget (Int. 709), debate.1.567-1662, 

1672-1726 

State budget (Int. 709), debate, limit’g. 1667 
State budget (Int. 709), Com. of Whole 

rep. to 3rd reading.. 1734 

State budget (Tnt. 709), final passage..2310-2321 

State debts (Tnt. 705), debate.1252-1314 

State debts (Int. 705), final pass., vote. 2290- 

2299 

State depts., reorg. (Tnt. 716). debate. .3204-3268. 

3284-3323. 3336-3363, 3372-3496 
State dents., reorg. (Tnt. 716), debate on 

3rd reading, amended .3860-3862 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), final 

passage, vote .3941-3959 

State dents., reorg. (Int. 716),. debate 

limited.3335, 3364 

state depts., reorg. (Tnt. 716), snecial 

order.3033-30.35, .30.39, .3061-3069 

State de])ts., reorg. (Int. 716), amend. . . . 3533 
































































234 


Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


Subject ' Page 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), Revision 

Com. report . 3761 

State depts., reorg. (Int. 716), Revision 

Com. report . 3912 

State debts, sinking funds, data.137-140 

State Depts. (Int. 716), consideration, 

time of . 2081 

State Lunacy Com., (Int. 371), debate.2799-2816 
State Lunacy Com. (Int. 371), final pass¬ 
age .3606-3613 

State Officers, depts. (Int. 716), reor¬ 
ganize, Com. report.1734-1735 

State Officers, depts. (Int. 716), minor¬ 
ity reports .1734-1736 

State Officers (Int. 716), minority repts. 1763 

State Police, Com. on, memorial. 506 

State Probation Com. (Int. 565), made 

special order .3709-3710 

Stationery, Conv’tion Committees, print¬ 
ing . 286 

Stationery for Convention Committees, 

resolution. 272-273 

Stationery, supplies, disposition, resol. . . 4449 

Stenographers, appointing, resol.1064-1065 

Stenographer, appointing . 324 

Stenographer to convention, resol. of 

thanks. 4453 

Stenographers, attendance, resolution... 414,461 

Stenographers, certain, excusing. 482 

Stenographers, certain, transferring. 734 

Stenographers, certain, excuse. 749 

Stenographers, certain, leave. 698 

Stenographers, certain, transferring. 483 

Stenographers, clerks, etc., convention, 

appoint. 157 

Stenographers, clerks, excusing, motion. . 678-679 
Stenographers, committee, resignation, 

appointing, etc. 309 

Stenographers, employment of. 84—88 

Stenographers, for Conv’n. additional.. 112 

Stenographer, transcript of notes, fur¬ 
nishing . 119 


Stockholders, corporations, Int. 122, dis¬ 
agree with report. 980-981 

Submission of revised constitution, man¬ 
ner of, debate. 4414-4428 

Submission of revised constitution, pre¬ 
scribing manner of authenticating.... 4428 

Suffrage amendments, report. 794-797 

Suffrage Com. hearing, speeches, print’g. 1319 
Supt. of Public Works, private, local 

appro’ns (Int. 719), debate.3013-3030 

Supreme Ct., commissioners (Int. 718), 

Com. report . .... . 1865 

Surrogates (Int. 718), Com. report. 1870 

Syracuse, memorial . 811 

Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, home 

rule memorial. 962 


Tammany memorial, print’g as document.438, 1032 
Taxation, exempt charitable institutions, 

memorial ..'. 222-223 

Taxation, finances, constit’l prov’ns, 

other states. 144-147 

Taxation, memorial, Bronx county regis¬ 
trar . 457-458 

Taxation (Int. 679), amend, debate..2000, 2124- 

2130 

Taxation (Int. 679), vote on Westwood 

amendment .2130-2141 

Taxation (Int. 679), amended.2199-2204 


Subject Page 

Taxation (Int. 679), debate. .. .948-958, 997-1012 
1043-1061,1108-1131,1756-1758,1763-1802 
Taxation, Int. 679, printing additional 

copies. 890 

Taxation, Int. 679, discus’n by sections.1154-1190 
Taxation, Int. 679, pending amendments, 

printing .1314-1315 

Taxation (Int. 679), limiting debate.... 1762 

Taxation (Int. 679), 3rd reading. 1835 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage, debate 

3557-3570 

Taxation (Int. 679), final passage, vote.3570-3578 
Tax article (Int. 679), effect on farmers. 


statement. 4167 

Tax article (Int. 679), submission, resol.4171-4172 

Taxation, Tammany memorial re. 360-371 

Tax exemptions, abolition, memorial.... 412 
Taxpayers actions, public causes, memo¬ 
rial, introduction . 397 

Teachers, salaries, N. Y. City, commu¬ 
nication . 196 

Telephones, for convention . 147 

Telephone operator, leave, resolution.... 785 

Telephone operator, appointing, etc. 856, 872 

Tenants’ Union, memorial . 3334 

Titles, regis’tion (Int. 718), com. report 1874 

Tonawanda, home rule, memorial. 733 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), minority report. 1437 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), debate.2887-2904, 

2953-2955 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd 

reading.3643-3645 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd 

reading.3638-3640, 3643-3645, 3834-3840 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), final passage, 

vote.3919-3926 

Towns, debts (Int. 713), Revision Com. 

report . 3912 

Transfer tax, data, by counties. 178 

Transfer taxes, data, obtaining, resolu¬ 
tion, adoption. 354 

Transfer tax proceedings, data, resol., 

adopting. 328 

Trask memorial, celebration, Saratoga, 

resolu. 446-447 

Trask Memorial exercises, Saratoga, an¬ 
nouncement . 505-506 

Triumph Hose Co. No. 1 of Homer, me¬ 
morial . 302 

LTnion League Club of New York, mem. 444 

Vaccination, compulsory, memorial .... 412 

Vaccination, compulsory, memorial, intr. 397 

Vice-president, stenog., etc. 157 

Vice-President, messenger to, appoint¬ 
ment . 246 

Vice-President, secretary to, appoint¬ 
ment .". 219 

Vice-Presidents, election of. 23 

Villages, debts (Int. 713), minority rep.. 1437 

Vice-Presidents of convention, resol. of 

thanks to. 4457 

Villages, debts (Int. 713), debate.2887-2904, 


2953-2955 

Villages, debts (Int. 713), debate on 3rd 

reading.3638-3640, 3643-3645, 3834-3840 

Villages, debts (Int. 713), final passage, 

vote.3919-3926 

Villages, debts (Int. 713), Revision Com. 

report. 3912 

Voters League of New York, memorial.. 444 







































































Stenographic Record, Index by Subjects 


235 


Subject Page 

Voters, literacy test (Int. G86), debate.2901 2919 
Voters, literacy test (Int. 086), disagree 

with Com. of Whole report.3040-3060 

Votes in Convention. (See Tables of 
Votes, pages 236-242.) 

Voting, inmates various institutions, 

communication. 197-198 

Voting machines, abolish., memorial.... 444 
Voting machines, city of Middletown.... 457 

Voting machine, memorial, Wellsville.. .. 458 

Wadsworth, J. W. Jr., communication re 

governor’s term . 972-974 

Walker, Dr. Mary E., permission to ad¬ 
dress Convention . 779 

Water, for Convention, com report, discus.418-425 

Water for convention . 158 

Water, drinking, for Convention. 364-365 

Waters, for canals, surplus, use of, etc., 

resol. . .. 279-280 

Waters, State, data, Library Com. report. 462-463 

Waters, State, surplus, data, resol. 460 

Waters, state, surplus, data. 574 

Water, surplus, data, resol, adoption.... 676 | 

White Pierrepont, memorial. 2798 \ 


Subject Page 

Witnesses for Convention, committees, 

expenses . 319-320 

Witnesses for standing committees, ex¬ 
penses . 292 

Woman SulTrage, Empire state cam¬ 
paign com., memorial . 302 

Woman sullrage, resolut’n against action. 52 

Woman Suffrage, Int. 703, re-reference.. 900 

Workmen’s compensation. Court of Ap¬ 
peals opinion, printing. 790 

Workmen’s compen. (Int. 405), made 


Workmen’s comp. (Int. 405), minor¬ 
ity report .. 1528 

Workmen’s compen., disease (Int. 714), 


Workmen’s compen., disease (Int. 714), 

Com. of Whole rep. 3911 

Workmen’s compen., disease (Int. 714), 

made Special Order. 3709 

Workmen’s compen., disease (Int. 714), 

Revision Com. rep. 3977 

Workmen’s compen., disease (Int. 714), 

final passage, vote.4141-4149 

Yonkers, home rule memorial. 972 



























TABLE OF VOTES ON PROPO 
Showing how Delegates were Record 


(Explanatory Note. —F means delegate voted for proposal indicated at head of column; Ag means against; X means not 
he would'have voted against the measure; ♦'means delegate was excused from voting.) _____ 


NAME 

Highway 

moneys 

Emergency 

messages 

Constitution, 

taking effect 

Public officers, 

extra pay 

Legi lature, 

presidipg officer 

Legislature, im¬ 

peachment, etc. 

State hospitals, 

insane 

Governor, 

’ vacapey 

Tenenient 

manufacturing 

Nat’l Guard, 

dept, chiefs 

Nat’lGuard,' 

officers 
:--- i 

Nat’l Guarcl, 

officers, absent 

Taxation 

CQ 

OJ 

ft 

• "cS' 

1 3 

' to 
u 

& 

oi 

^ U 

o 

% 

'Sb • 
V 

Governor, 

salary 

State debts 

‘ Int. 
No. 
31 

Int. 

No. 

78 

Int. 

No. 

145 

Int. 

No. 

289 

Int. 
No. 
290 < 

Int. 

No. 

291 

Int. 

No. 

371 

Int. 

No. 

385 

Int. 

No. 

407 

Int. 

No. 

531 

Int. 

'No. 

534} 

Int. 

No. 

535, 

Int. 

No. 

679 

Int. 

No. 

696 

Int. 

No. 

697^ 

Int. 

No. 

702. 

, Int. 
‘No. 
705 

Adams. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F’ 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

A hearn . 

F 

X 

F 

F 

• F' 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F’ 

' X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Aiken. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

. X. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Allen, F. C. 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

E 

F 

F 

i F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Ag* 

X 

F 

Allen, V. M’. 

X. 

X 

X 

' X 

X 

X 

- X 

X 

X 

X 

' X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Angell. 

X 

X- 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

‘ F 

E 

Ag* 

F 

X 

Austin. 

F 

F 

F 

Ag- 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Baldwin . 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

, F 

F 

F 

F’ 

X 

X 

X‘ 

F 

X 

Bannister. 

F 

F 

F^ 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

i F 

F 

X 

i F 

■ F 

F 

1 F 

F 

K 

Barnes;.. 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 1 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

. Ag 

Ag 

F 

Barrett... 

■ F 

F 

■ F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Baumes. 

F 

X 

E 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X- 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Bayes. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

’ F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Beach. 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Bell. 

F 

F 

F 

I F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

' F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Bernstein ... 

‘ F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

; F 

• X 

F 

F 

; F 

F 

F- 

F 

X 

Berri. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F' 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Agr 

F 

F 

Betts. 

. F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

' F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag- 

F 

F 

Blauvelt . 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Bockes. 

F 

X 

X 

F 

E 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

f X. 

x: 

Ag 

F 

E 

F 

F 

Brackett. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F' 

F 

X 

E 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Brenner.. 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Bunce. 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Burkan . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Buxbaum. 

F 

• F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Byrne . 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Clearwater. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Clinton. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Cobb. 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Coles. 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Cullinan. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Curran. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Dahm . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Daly . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Dennis. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Deyo. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

Dick. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Donnelly . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

E 

Donovan . 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Dooling .. . . . 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F‘ 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Doughty. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Dow. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Drummond . 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Dunlap. 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

Dunmore. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Dykman . 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Eggleston. 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

'F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Eisner . 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Endres . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Eppig . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Fancher. 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Fobes. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

T? 

Fogarty . 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Foley . 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Ford.. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Franchot. 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Frank . 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Gladding. 

y 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Green. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Greff. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Griffin . 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Hafen . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Hale. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Harauitz . 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Heaton. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Hey man . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Hinman. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

Johnson. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Jones. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Kirby. 


Y 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Kirk . 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Landreth. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Latson. 

F 

F 

r 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Law. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Leary . 

F 

F 

I-^ 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Leggett. 

Ag 

F 

I 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Leitner . 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

Lennox. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

1' 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Lincoln. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Linde. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Lindsay. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Low. 

F 

F 

F 

■ F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

McKean. 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

McKinney.. 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

'X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

M cLean . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Mandeville. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

M ann . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 


236 









































































































































SED AMENDMENTS ADOPTED 
ed on Roll Calls on Final Passage 

recorded; § means delegate stated that, if present, he would have voted for the measure; t means delegate stated that if present 


NAMES ^ 

Indians, courts 

Conservation 

State budg.Pt 

Canals 

Absentee 

regi.stration 

Home rule, 

cities 

Debts, cities, 

countie.s, etc. 

Workmen’s 

Comp., diseases 

Filture 

amendments 

State depts., 

reorganized 

Judiciary il 

1, 

Appropriations, j 

public works 

Bill of rights 

• 

County 

government 

Reapportion¬ 

ment 

Canal board, 

etc. 

Const’n, whole, 

final draft 

' 

Int. 

No. 

707 

Int. 

No. 

708 

Int. 

No. 

709 

Int. 

No. 

710 

Int. 

No. 

711 

Int. 

No. 

712 

Int. 

No. 

713 

Int. 

No. 

714 

Int. 

No. 

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X 

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F 

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X 

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Kirk . 

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F 

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F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

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X 

F 

X 

Ag 

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X 

X 

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F 

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X 

X 

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Lincoln. 

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F 

X 

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F 

F 

F 

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F 

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Lindsay. 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

X 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 

F 

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McKinney. 

McLean . 

X 

X 

Ag 

X 

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X 

F 

X 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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Table of Votes on Proposed Am 


NAME 

Highway 

moneys 

Emergency 

messages 

Constitution, 

taking effect 

Public officers, 

extra pay 

Legislature, 

presiding officer 

Legislature, im¬ 

peachment, etc. 

State ho.spitals, 

insane 

Governor, 

vacancy 

Tenement 

manufacturing 

Nat’l Gua'd, 

dept, chiefs 

Nat’l Guard, 

officers 

Nat’l Guard. 

officers, ab ent 

Taxation 

Legislative 

powers 

Legislators’ 

salary 

Governor, 

.salary 

State debts 

Int. 

No. 

31 

Int. 

No. 

78 

Int. 

No. 

145 

Int. 

No. 

1 289 

Int. 

No. 

290 

Int. 

No. 

291 

Int. 

No. 

371 

Int. 

No. 

385 

Int. 

No. 

407 

Int. 

No. 

531 

Int. 

No. 

534 

Int. 

No. 

535 

Int. 

No. 

679 

Int. 

No. 

696 

Int. 

No. 

^697 

Int. 

No. 

702 

Int. 

No. 

705 

Martin, F . 

V 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Martin, L. M. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Marshall. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Mathewson. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Mealy. 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

- F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

Meigs. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Mereness. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

Mulry . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Newburger . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Nicoll, C. 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Nicoil, D . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Nixon. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Nye. 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

O’Brian, J. L. 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

O'Brien, M. J . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

O'Connor, . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Olcott. 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ostrander. 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Owen. 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Parker. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Parmenter 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

.X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Parsons.... . . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Pelletreau. 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Phillips, J. S. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Phillips, S. K. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F’ 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Potter . 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 


F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

F 

Quigg. 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Reeves. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 1 

F 

F 

Rhees. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Richards . 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 


X 

X 

Rodenbeck. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F ' 

F 

F 

Root. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Rosch.. 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ryan . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ryder. 

. F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Sanders. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Sargent. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Saxe, J. G . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Saxe, M. 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

Schoonhut ... 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F' 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Schurman. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Sears. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Sharpe. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Sheehan . 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Shipman . 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Slevin . 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Smith, A. E . 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Smith, E. N. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Smith, R. B. 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Smith, T.F . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

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X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

Standart. 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Steinbrink. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Stimsdn. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Stowell. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Tanner. 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Tierney. 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Tuck. 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Unger . 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Vanderlyn. 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Van Ness. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Wadsworth. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

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F 

X 

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X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

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X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Waterman. 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Webber, C. A. 

F 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Weber, R. E. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Weed . 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Westwood. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Wheeler. 

X 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Air 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

T? 

F 

Whipple. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

A* 

F 

F 

White, C. J. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

White, J.J . 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Wickersham. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Wiggins. 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Williams. 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Winslow. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Wood. 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Young, C. H. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Young, F. L. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Republicans for. 

84 

96 

87 

98 

101 

103 

83 

96 

59 

99 

87 

93 

83 

92 

71 

96 

103 

Democrats for. 

33 

31 

31 

34 

31 

39 

‘?3 

29 

39 

36 

37 

36 

26 

31 

40 

38 

39 

Total for. 

117 

127 

118 

132 

132 

142 1 

106 

125 

98 

135 

124 

129 

109 

123 

111 

134 1 

142 

Republicans against. 

15 

0 

0 

2 

0 

1 

4 

0 

43 

0 

0 

0 

20 

0 

38 

4 

0 

Democrats against, . 

2 

0 

0 

2 

0 

0 

3 

0 

3 

0 

0 

0 

8 

0 

1 

1 

0 

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0 

0 

4 

0 

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7 

0 

46 

0 

0 

0 

28 

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endments Adopted — Concluded 


NAMES 

Indians, courts 

I 

Conservation 

State budget 

1 

Canals 

1 

Absentee 

registration 

VJ 

•Si 

•’E 

3 

O 

s 

o 

a 

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Debts, cities, 

countie.5, etc. 

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1 

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amendments 

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reorganized 

Judiciary 1 

J 

Appropriations, 

public works 

Bill of rights 

County 

government 

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ment 

Canal board, 

etc. 

Coiiot’n, whole, 

final draft 


Int. 

No. 

707 

Int. 

No. 

708 

Int. 

No. 

709 

Int. 

No. 

710 

Int. 

No. 

711 

Int. 

No. 

712 

Int. 

No. 

713 

Int. 

No. 

714 

Int. 

No. 

715 

Int. 

No. 

716 

Int. 

No. 

718 

Int. 

No. 

719 

Int. 

No. 

720 

Int. 

No. 

721 

Int. 

No. 

722 

Int. 

No. 

725 

Doc. 

No. 

52 

Marlin, F . 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 


Ag 








F 




Martin, L. M. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Marshall. 

F 

jr 

F 

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F 

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F 

p 

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p 

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F 

p 

F 

F 

F 

P 

F 

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Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Meigs. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 

F 

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X 

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F 


X 

X 

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F 

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p 

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X 

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Nicoll, C. 

X 

X 

p 

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F 

F 

F 

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X 

X 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 


F 

F 

F 

TP 

F 

F 

F 

X 

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F 

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F 

p 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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TP 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

Nye. 

F 

Ag 

p 

F 

F 

F 


p 

P 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

O’Brian, J. L. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

A 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 

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O’Connor . 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 


P 

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F 

F 

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F 

F 

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F 

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F 

F 

Y 

F 


F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

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F 

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F 

Parmenter. 

F 

F 

F 

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X 

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F 

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F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

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X 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

P 

F 

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TP 

F 

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F 

F 

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F 

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F 

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Richards . 

X 

F 

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p 

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F 

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F 

A 

F 

P 

TP 

F 

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Ag 

X 

F 

Root. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

A 

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P 

TP 

F 

F 

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Rosch. 

F 

F 

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X 

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p 

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F 

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F 

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F 

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p 

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JC 

Smith, E. N. 

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F 

F 

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F 

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F 

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F 

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F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

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F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

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F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

r 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

F 

X 

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X 

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F 

F 

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F 

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F 

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F 

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Republicans for. 

Democrats for. 

98 

32 

91 

30 

101 

35 

94 

33 

83 

26 

102 

18 

102 

40 

83 

42 

106 

39 

97 

28 

103 

32 

104 

42 

ICl 

29 

91 

37 

102 

1 

94 

35 

101 

17 

Total for. 

130 1 : 

121 

136 

127 1 

109 

120 

142 

125 

145 

125 

135 

146 

130 

128 

103 

129 

118 

Republicans against. 
Democrats against. . 

0 

0 

10 

1 

2 

2 

8 1 

2 1 
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21 

11 

2 

15 

0 

0 

17 

0 

0 

0 

15 

15 

1 

2 

2 

0 

1 

2 

9 

2 

3 

40 

0 

0 

5 

28 

Total against. 

0 1 

11 1 

4 

10 1 

32 

17 1 

0 

17 

0 

30 

3 

2 

3 

11 

43 

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TABLE OF VOTES — MISCELLANEOUS 

Showing How Delegates Were Recorded on Various Roll Calls not Included in Table of 
Votes on Final Passage of Proposed Amendments Adopted 

IExplaxatory Note. —means delegate voted for the.measure, motion or candidate as indicated atthe'hea.d of column; Ag mean 
against; X means-not recorded; § means delegate stated that,-if present, he wouldthave voted for-the motion or measure; 
t means delegate stated that,'if present,'he would have voted against the.motion onmeasure; * means delegate was excused 
from voting.! 


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2 

S febt 

w-o g 

%Si 

■rt O -J; 

la; 

pi 

-"I 

o3.t: 

• In ^ 

Int. 673. Apportionment bill (Demo¬ 
cratic). Adopting adverse report 
bv committee 

President 

of 

Conven¬ 

tion, 

election of 

Official 

'81000?- 

Tapher.to 

vConven- 

tion, 

■election of 

b£ 

"S. 

Inf. 701. Privileges, minimutn wage. 

Motion to strike out enactin,. 

clause 

iht. 686; Literacy lest. Motic n t 

advance to third reading 

Int. 679. Taxation. Motion to 

amend to prohibit all real prop¬ 

erty exemntion .. 

Int. 723, Reapportionment. Vote 

on M. J. O’brien amendments 

Int. 131. Food inspection-grading; 

Noncqmpulsory. Final passage. 

T.nst Chill L-illod) 

Int. 29. Civji Service. Motion to 

disagree with rules committee re¬ 

port . " 

Int. 697. Legislators. Salary. Ad¬ 

vancing to third reading 

A— 

. — 

-2-1^ 

Mi 

■sM 

Sc 

c 

Vote for Mr. 

Root 

Vote for Mr. M. J. 
O’Brien 

Vote for.Jbhh 

Marshall 

Vote for G. S. 
SKbtwel 

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2 

a 

2 

S 

2 

X) 

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Adams.. . . . 

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F 

F 


■E 


tF 

.Ag 

Ag 

t 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ahern .. 

F 

Ag 


F 

;F 


X 

F 

t 

Ag. 

F 

X 

X' 

F 

X 

Aiken.... 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

E 

F 

F 

Ag. 

Ag 

F 

Ag.' 

F 

iAg 

Allen, F.'C. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag ■ 

.X 

-Ag 

X 

Ag 

E 

Allen, V..M..... 

X 

X 

F 


X 


X 

.X 

X 

X 

:x 

X 

X‘ 

X 

-X 

Angell.. 

Ag 

F 

F 


;x 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F' 

F 

E 

Austin. .. 

X 

X 

F 



F 


Ao- 

F 

X 

Aff 

Ag 

Ag' 

F 

Az 

Baldwin. .. 

F 

Ag 

F 


E 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

•TVS 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Bannister. 

Ag 

F 

F 


E 


X 

• -F 

Ag 

Ag- 

Ag; 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Barnes..... 

Ag 

X 

F 


E 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

F> 

X. 

-Ag 

Ag, 

Ag 

X 

Barret.. 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 

•Ag 

Baumes. 

Ag 

F 

F 


,F 

..; 

X 

:x 

F 

X- 

Ag 

-Ag 

F 

F 

-■Ag 

Bayes. 

Ag 

F 

F 


E 


E 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

As, 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Beach. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


E 

F 

F 

Ag' 

Ag 

F 

1 F 

F 

-Ag 

Bell.. 

X 

X 

F 


X 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

■Ag 

Bernstein . 

F 

X 


F 


F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Berri.. 

Ag 

F 

F 

.. 

E 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag) 

E 

Betts.. 

Ag 

F 

F 


E 


X 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Blauvelt . 

F 

Ag 

F- 



F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag. 

Bockes. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag i 

X 

Ag 

F, 

Ag 

Brackett.. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

Brenner.. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

'Ag 

Bunce... 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 

. • 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

Burkan . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

•Ag 

Buxbaum... 

-Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

'Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Byine . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 

. . 

Ag 

/ F 

Ag 

X 

F. 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Clearwater. 

Ag • 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Clinton. 

X 

F 

F 


F 


X 

F 

■ Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

X' 

-Vg 

Cobb. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

E 

Ag| 

X 

Ag) 

Ag 

F 

F 


Coles. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

X 

F' 

Ag 

Ag 1 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Cullinan. 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

F 

Ag 

Ag4 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Curran. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Dahm . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

/F 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Daly . 

X 

X 


F 

F 


Ag 

/F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Dennis. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

E 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Deyo. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Dick. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


Ag 

E 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Donndly .. 

F 

Ag 


<F 

F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

Donovan . 

F 

Ag 


.F 

F 


Ag 

E 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

Dooliny . 

F 

Ag 


F 

X 


Ag 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

Doughty. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Dow. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


X 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

• Ag 

X 

F 

Drummond . 

X 

X 

F 


F 


Ag 

X 

X 

X 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

Dunlap. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

X 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

Dunmore. 

M 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Dykman . 

X 

X 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Eggle.ston. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Eisner . 

X 

X 


F 


F* 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Endres . 

X 

F 


F 

X 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

• F 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

Eppig . 

F 

Ag 


,F 

X 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Fancher. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Fobes.•. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

■ Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Fogarty . 

X 

X 


F 

F 


Ag 

X 

X 

X 

F 

iF 

F 

X 

X 

Foley . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

X 

-Ag 

Ford. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag ■ 

X 

Ag 

'Ag 

Ag 

F 

Franchot. 

Ag 

F 

F 




F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

iF 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Frank . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

X 

X 

X 

F ■ 

Az 

X 

F 

Ag 

Gladding. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

Green. 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

F' 

X 

Greff. 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

Griffin . 

X 

X 


■ F 

X 


Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Haffen ..| 

F 

Ag 


F 

X 


X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 


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Table of Votes — Miscellaneous — Continued 


NAMES 

y 

i Int. 673. Apportionment bill (Demo¬ 
cratic). Vote on motion to dis^ree 
with adverse report by committee 

Int. 673. Apportionment bill (Demo- 
cratie). Adopting adverse report 
by committee 

President 

of 

Conven¬ 

tion 

election of 

Official 
stenog¬ 
rapher to 
Conven¬ 
tion, 

election of 

.Address to people, adopting 

Int. 701. Privileges, minimum wage 

Motion to strike out enacting 

clause 

Int. 686. Literacy test. Motion to 

advance to third reading 

Int. 679, Taxation. Motion to 

1 amend to prohibit all real prop- 

1 erty exemption 

Int. 722. Reapportionment. Vote 

on M. J. O'Brien amendments 

Int. 131. Food inspection-grading. 

Noncompulsory. Final passage. 

Lost (bill killed) 

Int. 29. Civil Service. Motion to 

disagree with rules committee re¬ 

port 

Int. 697. Legislators. Salary. Ad¬ 

vancing to third reading 

Int. 697. Legislators. Salary. Mo¬ 

tion to reconsider vote by which 
bill was advanced to third reading 

Vote for Mr. 

Root 

Vote for Mr. M, J. 

O’Brien 

Vote for John 

Marshall 

Vote for G. S. 

Shotwell 

Hale. 

Ag 

F 

F 



F 

F 

Ag 

F 

-Vg 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Harawitz . 

F 

Ag 


F 

X 

^ . 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Heaton,., I. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

Heyman . 

X 

X 


F 

X 


Ag 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Hinman. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

X 


Johnson. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Jones. 

X 


F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

Kirby. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Kirk . 

X 

X 


F 

X 


Ag 

F 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

I,andreth. 

Ag 

X 

F 



F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Latson. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Law. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Leary . 

X 

X 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

1’ 

Ag 

Leggett. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Leitner .. 

X 

X 


F 

F 


X 

F 

X 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Lennox. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Lincoln. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Linde. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Lindsay. 

X 

X 

X 


X 


F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

Low. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


• F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

McKean. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

X 

F 

X 

X 

McKinney. 

Ag 

F 

F 

, . 

F 


F 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

McLean . 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

F 

X 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 

Mandeville. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

X 

Mann . 

F 

Ag 

F 


X 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 

Martin, F . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Martin, L. M. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Marshall. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Mathewson. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 


Mealy. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Meigs. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Mereness. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Mulry . 

F 

X 

F 


F 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

X 

Newburger . 

F 

Ag 


F 

X 


F 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

Ag 

Nicoll, C. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Nicoll, D. 

F 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 


Nixon. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Nye.. • 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

O’Brian, J. L.. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

O'Brien, M. J . 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 


O'Connor .. 

X 

X 

X 


X 


X 

F 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 

Olcott. 

X 

X 

F 


X 


X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

X 

F 

F 

F 

Ostrander. . ;. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


Ag 

X 

F 

X 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Owen. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

Parker. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Parmenter. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Parsons. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Pelletreau. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F- 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Phillips, J. S. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Phillips, S. K. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 

, , 

F 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

Potter . 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

Quigg. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

-Vg 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Reeves. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F. 

F 

Ag 

Rhees. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Richards ... 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 


X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Rodenbeck. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Rosch. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ryan . 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 


Ag 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ryder. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Sanders. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 


Sargent. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Saxe, J. G . 

F 

Ag 

F 


X 


Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

Ag 

Saxe, M. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

•Ag 

X 

F 

• Ag 

F 

X 

Schoonhut .• 

Ag 

F 


F 

F 


F 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Schurman. 

X 

X 

F 


F 

• • 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

F 

Sears. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Sharpe. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


■ F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Sheehan . 

F 

Ag 

F 


X 


Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Shipman . 

F 

. Ag 

F 


F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

X 

F 

F 

Ag 

Slevin . 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Smith, A. E . 

F 

Ag 


F 


F 

X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 


Ag 

F 

F 


F 

.. 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 


Ag 

F 

F 


F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Smith, T, F . 

F 

X 


F 


F 

Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

F 

F 

X 

F 

Ag 


























































































































Table of Votes — Miscellaneous — Concluded 


NAMES 

\ x 

Int. 673. Apportionment bill (Demo¬ 
crat). Vote on motion to disagree 
with adverse report by committee 

Int. 673. Apportionment bill (Demo¬ 
cratic). Adopting adverse report 
bv committee 

President 

of 

Conven¬ 

tion, 

election of 

Official 
stenog¬ 
rapher to 
Conven¬ 
tion, 

election of 

Address to people, adopting 

Int. 701. Privileges, minimum wage 

Motion to strike out enacting 

clause 

Int. 686. Literary test. Motion to 

advance to third reading 

Int. 679. Taxation. Motion to 

amend to prohibit all real prop¬ 

erty exemption 

Int. 722. Reappoftionment. Vote j 

on M. J. O’Brien amendments 

1 

{ 

{ 

! 

t 

i 

"T 

P3 

1 

lUL. lOl. J'UUU UlsptJUtlli 

Ncncompulsory. Final passage. 

Lost (bill killed) 

Int. 29. Civil Service. Motion to 

disagree with rules committee re¬ 

port 

Int. 697. Legislators. Salary. Ad¬ 

vancing to third reading 

Int. 697. Legislators. Salary. Mo ¬ 

tion to reconsider vote by which 
bill was advanced to third reading 

Vote for Mr. 

Root 

Vote for Mr. M. J. 

O’Brien 

Vote for John 

Marshall 

Vote for G. S. 

Shotwell 

Stanch field . 

X 

X 

F 


F 


X 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 


X 

X 

F 

Ag 

Standart. .•. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

1 F 

F 

F 

Ag 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Steinbrink. 

Ag 


F 


X 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Stimson. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

X 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Stowell.. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

F' 

F 

Ag 

Tanner. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

X 


X 

X 

F 

F 

Tierney. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


F 

Ag 

* 

Ag 

Ag 


Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

Tuck. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Unger . 

F 

Ag 

— 

F 

F 


Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 


X 

F 

F 

Ag 

Vanderlyn. 

Ag 

F 

F 


X 


X 

Ag 

F 

X 

X 


Ag 

F 

X 

Ag 

Van Ness. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Wadsworth. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 


X 

X 

Ag 

F 

Wafer . 

X 

X 

F 


X 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 

F 

X 

X 

Wagner . 

F 

Ag 

— 

F 

F 


X 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ward . 

F 

Ag 

— 

F 

— 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

, Waterman. 

Ag 

F 

F 


— 

F 

F 

F 

F 

X 

X 


F 

Ag 

X 

X 

Webber, C. A . 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 


F 

X 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Weber, R. E. 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 


X 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

X 

X 

X 

Weed . 

F 

Ag 

F 


X 


Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 


F 

F 

X 

X 

Westwood. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


. F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 


X 

F 

F 

Ag 

Wheeler. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

X 

Ag 

X 

Ag 


Ag 

Ag 

X 

Ag 

Whipple. 

Ag 

F 

F 


— 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 

F 

X 


X 

F 

X 

Ag 

White, C. J. 

X 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

White, J. J . 

F 

Ag 

— 

F 

X 


X 

X 

X 

X 

X 


X 

X 

X 

X 

Wickersham. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

F 

F 

Wiggins. 

Ag 

F 

F 


F 


X 

F 

F 

• Ag 

X 


Ag 

F 

F 

Ag 

Williams. 

Ag 

X 

F 


F 


F 

F 

F 

Ag 

X 


Ag 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Winslow . 

Ag 

F 

F 


—. 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Wood . 

Ag 

X 

F 


X 


F 

X 

X 

X 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Young, C. H. 

Ag 

F 

F 


— 

F 

F 

Ag 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Young, F. L. 

Ag 

F 

F 


— 

F 

F 

F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

X 

F 

Ag 

President . 

X 

X 

X 


X 


F 

F 

Ag 

Ag 

Ag 


F 

Ag 

Ag 

F 

Republicans for . 

0 

89 

114 

1 0 

83 

13 

81 

60 

64 

13 

0 


58 

43 

68 

34 

Democrats for.. 

36 

3 

19 

I 32 

28 

7 

7 

33 

3 

0 

38 


25 

29 

37 

0 

Total for. 

36 

92 

133 

1 32 

111 

20 

88 i 

i 93 

67 

13 

38 

83 

72 

105 

34 

Republicans against. 

97 

1 

0 

114 

13 

83 

15 

40 

44 

76 

91 


43 

55 

25 

63 

Democrats against. 

2 

31 

32 

1 19 

■ 7 

28 

32 

5 

33 

25 

0 


15 

6 

0 

36 

Total against. 

99 

32 

32 

133 

1 

20 

111 

47 1 

I 45 

1 

77 

101 

91 

58 

61 

25 

- 99 




















































































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243 


PROPOSED AMENDMENTS ADOPTED BY CONVENTION 


In order in which they were passed, giving history of each amendment 
with page numbers of all reference to the amendment in the printed 
stenographic record _ 


No. 78. By Mr. AUSTIN.— Amending section 
15, article 3, by striking out the authorization 
for the passage of bills in the legislature under 
emergency messages from the governor. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

May 27. Referred to Governor and Other State 
Officers Com. for opinion. 

May 28. Amended and recommitted. 

■June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole (G. 
0. No. 4). 

July 19. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 127. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 78, 376, 746. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 109 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 

for opinion .280-281 

Amended and recommitted. 295 

Reported. 418 

Debate: Those who spoke for — Austin, 

A. E. Smith, Hinman. Those who spoke 
against — Tanner, L. M. Martin ....759-771 
Debate: Those who spoke for — Austin, 
Barnes, Brackett, F. L. Young, Stimson, 

D. Nicoll, Wagner. Those who spoke 

against — L. M. Martin .816-823 

Amending. To third reading.823-824 

Revision Com. rep. agreed to.1862 

Final passage .2239-2250 


No. 531. By Mr. LATSON.— Amending section 
4, article 11, by providing that the Governor shall 
appoint the Adjutant-General of the State. The 
provision that he shall appoint chiefs of the 
several staff departments is stricken out. The 
Legislature may prescribe the number and quali¬ 
fications of the major-generals and aides-de- 
camp. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Governoi 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 30). 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 135. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos- 546, 761. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .374-375 

Reported amended . 896 


PAGE 

Moving .1070, 1217 

Making Special Order.1356-1360. 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Latson, 

M. Saxe .1528-1530 

Com. of the Whole reported. To third 

reading.1562 

Revision Com. reports.1668-1C69 

Final passage .2255-2263 


No. 534. By Mr. LATSON.— Amending section 
5 , article 11, by providing that all commissioned 
and non-commissioned officers chosen or appointed 
shall have -such qualifications as the Legislature 
may deem most conducive to the improvement of 
the militia. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Legisla¬ 
tive Powers Com. for its opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 31). 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 124. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 549, 762, 794. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. 375 

Reported amended .896-897 

Moving .1070, 1217 

Making Special Order.1356-1360 

Debate: Mr. Latson spoke.1531 

Amended .1545 

Com. of the Whole reported. To third 

reading.1563 

Revision Com. reports.•.1669 

Final passage .2263-2270 


No. 535. By Mr. LATSON.— Amending section 
6 , article 11, by providing that commissioned 
officers shall be removed from office for absence 
without leave for a period of three months or 
more instead of six months or more as at 
present. 

To Military Affairs Com. Also to Governor 
and Other State Officers Com. for its 
opinion. 

July 26. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 33). 

































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Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 129. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 550, 764. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. 375 

Reported amended .. 897 

Moving .1217 

, Making Special Order.1356-1360 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Latson.1531 
Com. of the Whole reported. To third 

reading. 1562 

Revision Com. report.1669 

Final passage .2270-2278 


No. 705. By FINANCE COMMITTEE.—Amend¬ 
ing sections 2, 4, 5, 11 and 12 of article 7, relative 
to state debts. It provides that the state may 
contract debts in anticipation of taxes and rev¬ 
enues for the purposes, and within the amounts, 
of appropriations theretofore made, to be paid 
within one year from the date of bonds or other 
obligations issued therefor. Except as specified 
in sections 2 and 3, no debt shall be contracted 
by the state after November 2, 1915, unless it is 
authorized by law for some single work or object. 
On the final passage of suck a bill in either house 
of the Legislature the question shall be “ Shall 
this bill pass and ought the same to receive the 
sanction of the people?”' The law shall not take 
effect until it has been submitted to and approved 
by the people at a general election. It provides 
that state debts hereafter contracted except emer¬ 
gency debts shall be based on serial bonds payable 
in equal annual instalments, the first to be due in 
not more than one year and the last in not more 
than fifty years. No such debt shall be con¬ 
tracted for a period longer than the probable life 
of the improvement. Existing sinking funds are 
continued but the Legislature may by general laws 
provide a means whereby outstanding sinking 
fund bonds may be exchanged at par for cancella¬ 
tion for aerial bonds authorized under section 4, 
except that the debt as thus refunded shall finally 
mature not later, and at no greater comparative 
cost to the state than the original debt. The deter¬ 
mination of the legislature as to such comparative 
cost to be conclusive. Wlien the amount in a 
sinking fund equals the amount of the debt for 
which it was created no further contribution shall 
be made to the fund. The comptroller is to make 
annual appraisals of all the sinking fund securi¬ 
ties held for investment, at their fair market 
value not exceeding par. Highway improvement 
debts shall hereafter be created only on the basis 
of serial bonds as provided in section 4. 

Read twice, ordered printed and tabled. 

July 26. Referred to Com. of the Whole 
(G. 0. No. 35). 

July 29. Motion to make Special Order for 
Aug. 5, referred to Rules Com. 

July 30. Made Special Order for Aug. 5. 

Aug. 3. Amended. 

Aug. 5. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 142. Noes, 0. 

Printed No. 758, 777, 784. 


• Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 891 

To Com. of the Whole. 898 

Special Order for Aug. 5.975, 1031 

Amended .1131 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Stimson, 


M. Saxe, Wagner, Clinton, Cullinan, 
Schurman, Brackett, Marshall, C. H. 
Young, Quigg, D. Nicoll, Griffin, Wicker- 
sham, Beach, A. E. Smith, Lincoln, Sears, 
Wiggins, Austin, Hinman, C. A. Webber, 
Leggett, Low, Latson, Westwood.. 1252-1314 

Amended .1279, 1281, 1312 

Com. of the Whole reported. To third 

' reading .1313-1314 

Revision Com. report.2199 

Final passage . 2290-2299 

(See Document No. 23.) 


No. 709. By COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 
Amending section 21 of article 3, and inserting 
a new article providing for a state budget to be 
submitted to the Legislature by the Governor on 
or before February Ist, containing a complete plan 
of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues 
and to be accompanied by a bill or bills for all pro¬ 
posed expenditures and estimated revenues and 
to be accompanied by a bill or bills for all pro¬ 
posed appropriations and re-appropriations clearly 
itemized. It must show the estimated revenues 
for the ensuing year together with the measures 
of taxation, if any, which the governor may pro¬ 
pose for the increase of revenues and must be 
accompanied by a statement of the financial con¬ 
dition of the State. The Governor, Comptroller 
and the department heads may appear before 
either house of the Legislature to answer in¬ 
quiries relative to the budget. Such an appro¬ 
priation bill when passed by the Legislature shall 
become a law immediately without further action 
by the Governor, except that appropriations for 
the Legislature and Judiciary shall be subject 
to the Governor’s approval, as provided in sec¬ 
tion 9, of article 4. Department heads are to 
submit their estimates to the Governor by No¬ 
vember 15th except the Legislature and Judiciary 
whose estimates must be submitted to him before 
January 15th. The Governor after public hear¬ 
ing may revise such estimates except those for 
the Legislature and Judiciary. No other appro¬ 
priation bills may be considered by the Legis¬ 
lature until the Governor’s bills have been finally 
acted on, nor shall further appropriations be 
then made except by separate bills each for a 
single work or object, such bills to be subject 
to the Governor’s approval. The life of every 
appropriation is to end three months after the 
close of the fiscal year next succeeding that in 
which the appropriation is made and the fiscal 
year of the State is made to end on June 30th. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 46). 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 9 (even- 
insr), and Tuesday, Aug. 10. 

Aug. 11. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 16. Amended. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 137. Noes, 4. 

Printed Nos. 778, 802, 809. 



















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246 


(To take the place of: Int. 13, by Mr. C. H. 

Young; Int. 19, by Mr. Aiken; Int. 158, by E. N. 

Smith; Int. 221, by Mr. Pelletreau; Int. 315, by 

Mr. Barnes; Int. 341, by Mr. A. E. Smith; Int. 

416, by Mr. Meigs; Int. 432, by Mr. Meigs; Int. 

458, by Mr. Green; Int. 498, by Mr. J. G. 

Saxe; Int. 540, by Mr. J. G. Saxe; Int. 630, by 

Mr. Parsons). 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1134-1135 

Finance Com. report.1134-1150 

Minority report .1249-1250 

Making Special Order.1356-1360 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Stim- 
son, D. Nicoll, Wagner, Brackett, A. E. 
Smith, Quigg, Wickersham, Marshall, 

J. L. O’Brian, J. G. Saxe, Cullinan, Par¬ 
sons, Wadsworth, M. Saxe, Schurman, 

R. B. Smith, Latson, Hinman, Sheehan, 

Byrne, Wiggins, Stanchfield.1567-1662 

Com. of MTiole reported progress.1662 

Debate limited. .1595, 1612-1616, 1667, 

1685-1688 

Com. of Whole reported progress.1662 

Debate: Those who spoke were — J. G. 
Saxe, Parsons, Hinman, Rodenbeck, Stim- 
son, R. B. Smith, Quigg, Cobb, Brackett, 

A. E. Smith, Wagner, Wadsworth, Weed, 
Byrne, Olcott, D. Nicoll, Bernstein, Os¬ 
trander, Marshall, Barnes, Sheehan, 
Deyo, Mann, F. L. Young, Low, Leggett, 
Austin, F. Martin, Dykman, Reeves, 

Baldwin, Green, Beach.1672-1726 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3rd rdg.1734 

Amended.1999-2000 

Revision Com. report .2199 

Final passage, debate.2310-2321 

(See Documents Nos. 11, 13, 14, 15, 32 and 35.) 


No. 289. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Amending 
section 28, article 3, by striking out the present 
provisions and providing that “ no extra compen¬ 
sation shall be granted or allowed to any public 
officer, servant, agent or contractor, by the state 
or any civil division thereof or by any board, 
officer or other agency of the state, or of any 
such civil division.” 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

June 3. Amended and recommitted. 

June 15. Reported to Com. of the Whole (G. 
0. No. 2). 

July 19. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision 
report tabled. 

Aug. 17. Revision Com. report taken from 
table and adopted. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Aves, 132. Noes, 4. 

Printed Nos. 292, 410, 747, 800. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. 253 

Amended and recommitted. 319 

Reported. 417 

Moving. 723 

Debate: Those who spoke for — R. B. 
Smith. Tliose who spoke against — 
Wickersham.723-727 


PAGE 

Com. of Whole reporting progress. 729 

Debate: Those who spoke — R. B. Smith, 
Baldwin, Cullinan, (Clinton, Marshall, J. 

G. Saxe, Latson, Brackett, Wickersham, 

Bunce, D. Nicoll .750-759 

Com. of the Whole, reporting progress.... 773 
Debate: Those who spoke—Wickersham, 

R. B. Smith.814-816 

Advanced to third reading. 843 

Revision amendment report tabled.1671 

Revision Com. report adopted.2141 

Revision Com. report engrossing.2201 

Final passage .2321-2329 


No. 707. BY COMMITTEE ON INDIAN RE¬ 
LATIONS.— Amending section 15, article 1, 
by abolishing the peacemakers’ courts of the 
Tonawanda nation, and peacemakers’ courts and 
surrogates’ courts of the Seneca nation and all 
other Indian agencies of the Indian tribes and 
nations in so far as they exercise judicial func¬ 
tions, and vesting their jurisdiction in the State 
courts. All actions and proceedings now pending 
shall be transferred to proper state courts. Ex¬ 
cept as otherwise provided by treaties of the 
State and the constitution, treaties and laws of 
the United States, all general laws of the State 
now or hereafter in force shall apply to all Indians 
within the State. 

Referred to Committee of the Whole (G. O. 
No. 43). 

Aug. 6. Make Special Order for Aug. 9 (after¬ 
noon ). 

Aug. 9. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision Com. 
report tabled. 

Aug. 17. Revision Com. report taken from 
table and adopted. 

Aug. 18. Passed. Ayes, 130. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 769, 793, 799. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of.979-980 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Lindsay, 

Wickersham, Bunce .1218-1221 

Com. of the Whole, reported progress.1221 

Consideration, deferred .1252 

Makinu Special Order.1356-1360 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Reeves, 
Lindsay, Wood, Westwood, Weed, Unger, 

J, L. O’Brian, R. B, Smith, Leggett, Hale, 

Sanders ... 1531-1546 

Com. of the Whole rep. To 3rd rdg.1563 

Revision amendment. Report tabled.1670 

Revision Com. report adopted.2141 

Revision Com. report, engrossing.2201 

- Final passage .2329-2337 

(See Document No. 26.) 


No. 291. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Adding a 
new section to article 3 and amending section 4, 
article 4, by providing that the legislature may of 
its own motion in the manner to be provided by 
continuing rule, convene to take action in the 
matter of removal of a judge of the court of ap¬ 
peals or justice of the supreme court. The As- 







































Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


2^-:6 


sembly may, of its own motion in the manner to 
be provided by continuing rule, convene for the 
purposes of impeachment. No other subjects 
shall be acted on at such meetings. At extra¬ 
ordinary sessions convened by the Governor, only 
subjects recommended by him may be considered. 

To Legislative Powers Com. Also to Gov¬ 
ernor and Other State Officers Com.' for 
opinion. 

July 8. Reported amended to Com. of the 
“ Whole (G. 0. No. 11). 

July 19. To third reading. 

July 30. Amended. 

Aug. 11. Amended in revision. Revision 
Com. report tabled. 

Aug. 17. Revision Com. report adopted. 

Aug. 18. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 142, Noes 1. 

Printed Nos. 294, 734, 775, 798, 819. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 253 

Reported amended . 703 

Debate: Those who spoke — R. B. Smith, 
Barnes, Austin, Marshall, Wagner, 
Brackett, A. E. Smith, Schurman, Hin- 

man, Root .828-842 

Com. of Whole report.843-844 

Amended.1016 

Reyision amendment rep. tabled.1670-1671 

Reyision Com. report adopted.2142 

Reyision Com. report. 2201 


Amended. Debate: Those who spoke were: 
Barnes, Bernstein, Brackett, Clinton, 
Coles, Leggett, Hinman, Marshall, Lin¬ 
coln. Parsons, Quigg, Sheehan, A. E. 
Smith, R. B. Smith, Steinbrink, Wagner, 


Westwood, Wickersham .2337-2354 

Final passage. 3506-3515 

Surplusage, struck out.3532-3533 


No. 697. By LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION 
COMMITTEE.— Amending section 6, article 3, by 
increasing from $1,500 to $2,500 the annual sal¬ 
ary of each member of the legislature and reim¬ 
bursing them for the railroad fare actually paid 
in going to and returning from sessions of the 
Legislature not oftener than once each week. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 17). 

Aug. 4. To third reading. 

Auj?. 5. Motion to reconsider yote by which 
Com. of the Whole report adyancing to 
third reading was agreed to, lost. 

Aug. 18. Recommitted to Com. of the Whole. 

Aug. 20. Made special order following Int. 719. 

Aug. 26. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 111, Noes 30. 


Printed Nos. 741, 835. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of.797-798 

Report on .798-801 

Moying .1154 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Brackett, 


Lindsay, Byrne, Parsons, Dahm, Leggett, 

M. Saxe, Curran. Green, Vanderlyn, 
Richards, Marshall, Tierney, Mereness, 
Kirby, Westwood, A. E. Smith, Schur¬ 
man, Wadsworth, Tuck, Latson, Deyo, 
Dunmore .1190-1216 


^ PAGE 

Com, of the Whole report, yote on.. .. 1221-1231 

Motion to reconsider, yote on: Those who 
spoke were — Wickersham, Lindsay, Deyo, 
Quigg, Rancher, J. L. O’Brian, J, S, 

Phillips, Betts, Brackett.1234-1245 

Revision Com. report.2198-2199 

Recommitted. Debate: Those who spoke 

were — Austin, Betts, Brackett, A. E. 
Smith, Dick, Marshall, J. G. Saxe, Plin- 
man, Wadsworth, Wickersham, Barnes, 
Leggett, Westwood, Griffin, E. N. Smith, 


Lindsay, Buxbaum, Stimson ..... .2278-2290 
Made special order .2574-2575 


Debate. Amended: Those who spoke were 
—Austin, Barnes, Brackett, Buxbaum, 
Byrne, Fobes, Foley, Green, Griffin, Haf- 
fen, Leggett, Lincoln, Lindsay, Mereness, 
J. L. O’Brian, Ostrander, J. S. Phillips, 
Quigg, J. G. Saxe, M. Saxe, Schurman, 
Sheehan, A. E. Smith, E. N. Smith, 
Stanchfield, Stowell, Vanderlyn, Wads¬ 
worth, C. A. Webber, Westwood, Whip¬ 


ple, Wickersham .3069-3090 

Com. of Whole rep To third reading....3090 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3195 

Final passage.3524-3532 


Debate: Those who spoke were — Deyo, 

Green, Heaton, Angell, Burkan, Root, 
Byrne, Rodenbeck. 

(See Document No. 20.) 


No. 679. By COMMITTEE ON TAXATION.— 
Adding a new article providing that the power 
of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended 
or contracted away, except as to the securities of 
the state or a civil division thereof. Hereafter 
no exemption from taxation shall be granted ex¬ 
cept by general laws and upon the affimative vote 
of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house. Taxes shall be imposed by general laws and 
for public purposes only. The legislature shall pre¬ 
scribe how taxable subjects shall be assessed and 
provide for officers to execute laws relating to the 
assessment and collection of taxes, any provision 
of section two of article ten of this constitution 
to the contrary notwithstanding, and shall pro¬ 
vide for the supervision, review and equalization 
of assessments. For the assessment of real 
property, heretofore locally assessed, the legisla¬ 
ture shall establish tax districts, none of which, 
unless it be a city, shall embrace more than one 
county. The assessors therein shall be elected 
by the electors of such districts or appointed by 
such authorities thereof as shall be designated 
by law. The legislature may provide that the 
assessment roll of each larger district shall serve 
for all the lesser tax districts within its bound¬ 
aries. The legislature may, however, provide for 
the assessment by state authorities of all the 
property of designated classes of public service 
corporations. 

To Taxation Com. 

July 22. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 28). 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug.. 11. 

Aug. 12. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 17. Amended. 






























Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


247 


determined tliat the 
separately submitted. 
80t), 812, 834. 

PAGE 

. 450 


Aug. 26. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Passed Ayes 109, jS’oes 28. 

Sept. 4. .Resolution for separate submission 
to voters referred to special committee on 
submission of the Constitution and amend¬ 
ments. 

Sept. 10. Convention 
proposition should be 
Printed Nos. 696, 756, 

Stenographic Record: 

Introduction of . 

Reported amended . 871 

Debate: Those who spoke were — M. Saxe, 
Parsons, Cullinan, Franchot, Sargent, 

Lincoln, Wickersham, Byrne.948-958 

Com of the Wliole, reported progress. 958 

Debate: Those-who spoke were— M. Saxe, 
Wickersham, Wagner, D. Nicoll, Schur- 
man, C. A. Weber, Leggett, Griffin, Don¬ 
nelly, R. B. Smith, Olcott.997-1012 

Com. of the Whole, reported progress. ... 1013 

Moving .1037 

Debate: Those who spoke were — M. Saxe, 

J. S. Phillips, Wagner, J. G. Sa.xe. 
Schurman, Low, Dykman, Wiggins, Par¬ 
sons, Quigg, Austin, Wickersham, A. E. 

Smith .1043-1061 

Committee of the Whole, reported pro¬ 
gress .1063-1064 

Amendment to, printing.1068 

Debate: Those who spoke were — M. Saxe, 
Wickersham, Clinton, Marshall, Wagner, 

D. Nicoll, Nixon Huger, Cullinan, M. 
Saxe, Austin, Reeves, C. A. Webber, Deyo, 
Sheehan, Olcott, A. E. Smith, Brackett, 

Westwood, Cullinan .1108-1131 

Com. of the W^hole, reported progress.1131 

Amendments offered, printing. 1139 

Debate: Those who spoke were — M. Saxe, 
Wagner, A, E. Smith, Sheehan, W^icker- 
sham, Byrne, D. Nicoll, Ostrander, Sand¬ 
ers, C. A. W^ebber, Austin, Marshall, 
Barnes, Cobb, Griffin, Leggett, J. S. Phil¬ 
lips, Parsons, Wadswortli, Mereness, F. L. 

Young, S. K. Phillips.1154-1190 

Com. of the WHiole. reported progress.... 1221 

Amendments pending, printing.1314-1315 

Make Special Order.1356-1360 

Exchange place with Tnt. 701.1735 

Debate limited .1736 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Griffin, 

J. L. O’Brian, Austin.1756-1758 

Com. of the Wdiole, reported progress.1759 

Debate limited .1762 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Wiggins, 
Griffin, Lincoln, C. A. W’ebber, Barrett, 
Olcott, McKinney, Austin, M. Saxe, Par¬ 
sons, Leggett. L. M. Martin, Low, Culli¬ 
nan, Ryan, Dykman. Ostrander, Stanch- 
6ehl, F. L. Younof, W’estwood. J. G. Saxe. 
Sharpe, Wickersham, A. E. Smith. Mo”''- 

ness.1763-1802 

Com. of the Whole ren. To 3rd rdg.1835 

Amended .2000, 2124-2141. 2199-2201 

Revision Com. report.2354 

Amended .3038 

Pevi'^ion Com. rep., engrossing.3120 

Fi’^al passage, debate.3557-3570 

^Piose who spoke were: Olcott, Sharpe, M. 

Saxe, Reeves. Ryder, Burkan, A. E. 


PAGE 

Smith, Brackett, W'iggins, W^estwood, 
Kirby, Mandeville, C. A. W^ebzber, Unger, 
Leggett. Ostrander, Austin, Clearwater, 
iSlereness, J. G. Saxe, Donnelly. 


Final passage, vote.3570-3578 

Statement re effect on farmers.4167 

Submission to people, resolution.4171-4172 


No. 371. By Ur. STEINBRINK.—Amending 
section 11, article 8, by providing that the man¬ 
agement and fiscal control of state hospitals for 
the insane (not including institutions for crimi¬ 
nals or convicts), shall remain in the state com¬ 
mission in lunacy, except in so far as such man¬ 
agement may now or hereafter be delegated by 
tile h'gislature to the local boards ot managers. 

To Charities Com. Also to Governor and 
Otlier State Officers Com. for its opinion. 

Aug. 5. Peported amended to Committee of 
tli(‘ WTiole (G. 0. No. 49). 

.\ug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 
718. 

Aug. 24. Amended. To tliird reading. 

Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 106, Noes 7. 

Printed Nos. 378, 783. 827. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 304 

Reporting amended .1248-1249 

Alinoritv report .1249 

Made Special Order.2080 

Limiting debate .2573-2574 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Barnes, 

Bell, Dykman, Hinman. IMarshall, D. 
Nicoll, Schurman, Shipman, T. F. Smith, 
Steinbrink. Stowell, Tanner, WTrdsworth, 

WTiipple. Wdekersham.2799-2816 

Tdmiting debate, ruling.2814-2815 

Com. of WTiole lep. To third reading.... 2816 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing:.3035-3036 

Final passage .3606-3613 

(See Document No. 34.) 


No. 31. By Air. BLAUVELT.—Adding new 
section 13 to article 7, providing that moneys 
authorized to be raised by the sale of highway 
bonds pursuant to the law approved by vote of 
the people at the general election in 1912 which 
have been apportioned to certain counties in ex¬ 
cess of the sums to be determined by the com])- 
troller which are or will be required to construct 
and improve highways theretofore determined 
by general laws to be constructed and improved 
in said counties shall be applied by tlu‘ state 
commission of highways after appropriation by 
the legislature, to the construction and improve¬ 
ment of such routes and portions thereof, as 
were defined by law when said bonds were 
authorized, and located outside of said counties, 
as it may deem expedient. 

To Public Utilities Com. 

Aug. 2. Reported to Com. of the Whole (G. 0. 

No. 45). 

Aug. 5. Amended. 

Aug. 21. Amended. 

Aug. 25. Made Special Order. 












































248 


Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention ^ 


Aug. 26. Ameuded. To third reading. 
Aug. 31. Passed. Ayes 117, Noes 17. 
Printed Nos. 31, 782, 826, 837. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 74 

Reporting .1036 

Amending .1246 

Amended .2651 

Made Special Order..’.3033-3034 


Debate: Those who spoke were —Angell, 
Austin, Barnes, Blauvelt, Brackett, Clin¬ 
ton, Deyo, Donnelly, Dunlap, Fancher, 
Franchot, LaAv, Leggett, L. M. Martin, 
Marshall, Meigs, Mereness, Reeves, 
Ryder, Sanders, Schurman, E. N. Smith, 
Stimson, Stowell, Tuck, Vanderlyn, 
Wagner, Westwood, Wickersham. .3091-3133 
Com. of Whole reported progress.. .3119, 3125 


Limiting debate .3125-3126 

Com. of Whole rep. To third reading. ...3150 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3195 

Final passage .3630-3637 


No. 290. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.— Amending 
section 10, article 3, by providing that a majority 
of the members elected to each house of the legis¬ 
lature shall constitute a quorum, instead of a ma¬ 
jority of each house as at present. If the lieuten¬ 
ant-governor become governor, the temporary 
president shall become lieutenant-governor for the 
residue of the term. If the lieutenant-governor be 
^impeached or be unable to discharge the duties of 
*the office or be acting governor, the temporary 
president shall act as lieutenant-governor during 
such impeachment or inability or while the lieu¬ 
tenant-governor is acting governor. If the lieu¬ 
tenant governor refuse to act as president or be 
absent from the chair, the temporary president 
shall preside. If the speaker of the assembly be 
unable to perform the duties of the office or be 
acting governor, the assembly may choose a 
temporary speaker. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

May 27. Reported amended and recommitted. 

June 18. Amended and recommitted. 

July 7. Reported to Com. of the Whole (G. 

6. No. 7). 

July 12. To third reading. 

Aug. 30. Amended in revision. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 132, Noes 0. 


Printed Nos. 293, 362, 699, 841. 
Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. 253 

Amending. 287 

Amending.460-461 

Reporting... 683 

Debate: Those who spoke — R. B. Smith. 

771-772 

Advanced to third reading. Com. of Whole 

report . 773 

Revision Com. reported, amended.3467 

Rev:'ion Com. reported engrossing.3637 

Final passage .3645-3653 


No. 385. By Mr. R. B. SMITH.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 6 and 7, article 4, by providing that if the 
office of governor be vacant the lieutenant-gov¬ 


ernor shall become governor for the residue of the 
term. If the governor be under impeachment or 
be unable to discharge the powers and duties of 
his office, or be absent from the State, the lieuten¬ 
ant-governor shall act as governor during such 
impeachment, inability or absence. If the office 
of governor be vacant and there be no lieutenant- 
governor such vacancy shall be filled for the re¬ 
mainder of the term at the next general election 
happening not less than three months after the 
vacancy occurs, but until the vacancy is so filled, 
the temporary president of the senate, or if there 
be none, the speaker of the assembly shall be gov¬ 
ernor until the first day of the political year next 
succeeding the election at which a successor shall 
be chosen. If the office of governor be vacant and 
the lieutenant-governor be under impeachment or 
unable to discharge the duties of governor or be 
absent from the state, the temporary president of 
the senate shall act as governor. If the tem¬ 
porary president be unable to discharge such 
duties or be absent from the state, the speaker 
of the Assenibly shall act as governor. 

To Governor and Other State Officers Com. 
July 15. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 20). 

Aug. 4. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 125, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 392, 744, 846. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 307 

Reported amended .801-802 

Debate: Advanced to third reading. R. B. 

Smith spoke.1217 

Com. of the Whole reported. To third read¬ 
ing . 1221 

Amended .3506 

Revision Com. reported engrossing. 3637 

Final passage .3653-3660 


No. 711. By COMMITTEE ON SUFFRAGE. 
—Amending section 4, of article 2 by providing 
for annual registration of electors to be completed 
fifteen days before each general elction. Laws may 
be made providing for special registration on per¬ 
sonal application not more than five months prior 
to election, of electors whose regular vocation or 
occupation require their absence from the county 
during each of the regular days of registration. 

To Committee of the Whole. (G 0. No. 
48.) 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 10. 

Aug. 11. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 17. Motion to amend tabled. Ordered re¬ 
printed with proposed amendments. 

Aug. 30. Amended in revision. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 109, Noes 32. 

Printed Nos. 780, 804, 814, 842, 844. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 1248 

Minority report . 1249 

Make Special Order.1356-1360 

Taken up out of order.1527 


Debated: Those who spoke were — Schur¬ 
man, Marshall, Lincoln, A. E. Smith, C. 

































Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


249 


PAGE 

A. Webber, Leggett, Steinbrink, Olcott, 
Westwood, J. G. Saxe, Green, Parsons, 
Deyo, J. L. OB’rian, Dahm, Mereness, 


Clinton .1546-1563 

Com. of the Whole, reported progress.1563 

'Debate limited .1549-1595 

Moving.1726 

Debate; Those who spoke were — J. G. 


Saxe, Westwood, Steinbrink, Burkan, 

Low, Barnes, Wickersham, Deyo, Olcott, 
Parsons, J. L. O’Brian, Leggett, Wiggins, 
Deyo, C. Nicoll, Westwood, Hinman, A. E. 
Smith, Lincoln, C. A. Webber, Bell, Culli- 
nan, Buxbaum, Law, J. S. Phillips, Wag¬ 
ner, Clinton, Marshall., 1726-1734, 1736-1756 

Debate limited .1736 

Com. of the Whole rep. To 3rd rdg.. 1758-1759 
Motion to disagree with Com. of Whole rep.1759 

Motion to amend, tabled.2124 

Amended .3467 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3467 

Amended, debate .3498-3504 

Those who spoke were: Lincoln, Roden- 
beck, Brackett, Vanderlvn, Wickersham, 

C. Nicoll, J. G. Saxe. 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3637 

Final passage, debate.3660-3671 

Tliose who spoke were: Brenner, Lincoln, 
Brackett, Westwood, Diinmore, ]Mereness, 
Wickersham, INIarshall, Cullinan, E. N. 
Smith, Wiggins, Steinbrink, M. Saxe, 

C. A. Webber, Doughty, Dunlap, J. G, 
Saxe, Ostrander, Quigg, Leggett. 

Final passage, vote.3671-3680 

(See Document No. 37.) 


No. 145. By Mr. MARSHALL.—^Amending sec¬ 
tion 1, article 15, by providing that this constitu¬ 
tion shall be in force from and including January 
1, 1916. 

To Future Amendments Com. 

Aug. 11. Reported to Com, of the Whole (G. 0. 
58.) 

Aug. 25, Made Special Order. 

Aug. 27. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Passed. Ayes 118, Noes 0. 


Printed No. 145. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 154 

Reported .1668 

Made Special Order. 3033-3034 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d reading.3194 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3466-3467 

Final passage, vote.3710-3717 


No. 708. BY CONSERVATION COMMITTEE. 
— Repealing section 7 of article 7 and inserting 
a new article, providing for a state department of 
conservation with 9 commissioners, one from each 
judicial district, to be appointed by the governor 
for 9 year terms and to serve without compensa¬ 
tion. The commission is to have power to make 
fish and game regulations, subject to veto within 
thirty days by the governor, which shall have the 
force of law unless and until the legislature modi¬ 
fies them. The present forest preserve lands owned 
by the state are to be forever kept as wild forest 


lands, but the commissioners ihay construct fire 
trails and may remove dead timber for purposes 
of reforestation and fire protection only but not 
for sale. The Legislature may provide for the use 
of not exceeding 3 per cent, of such lands for 
reservoirs for municipal water supply, for the 
canals and to regulate the flow of streams, such 
reservoirs to be owned and controlled by the state, 
and the cost to be apportioned upon the munic¬ 
ipalities and property benefited. The Legislature 
may authorize New York City to use certain lands 
in Ulster and Greene counties for its municipal 
water supply. The department must appoint a 
superintendent. The legislature shall annually 
make provision for the purchase of real property 
within the Adirondack and ('atskill parks as de¬ 
fined by law, the reforestation of lands, and the 
making of boundary and valuation suiT'eys. 

To Committee of the Whole (G. 0. ^4). 

Made special order for Friday, August v, 

Aug. 5. Amended. 

Aug. 6. Amended in Committee of Whoit, 
Made Special Order for Aug. 9. 

Aug. 9, Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 20. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 121, Noes 11. 

Printed Nos. 773, 785, 787, 789, 825, 847, 
852. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of.1018 

Committee report and minority reports. . . . 

1018-1021 

Minority reports.1021-1029 

Referred to Com. of the Whole.1029 

Special Order for Aug 6.1031 

’Amended .1273 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Mar¬ 


shall, F. L. Young, Quigg, Parsons, M. J. 
O’Brien, Winslow, E. N. Smith, Weed, 
Bockes, Austin, Whipple, Clinton, Os¬ 
trander, Brackett, Rhees, Wickersham, 
J. G. Saxe, Aiken, Dunlap, Mereness, 
Angell, Meigs, Stowell, Landreth, Bald¬ 
win, Foley, Westwood, Low, Wagner, 
McKinney, Bannister, Root, Pelletreau, 
J. L. O’Brian, Scliurman, R. B. Smith, 


Deyo, Blauvelt, Dow.1319-1430 

Debate: Tliose who spoke were — Mere¬ 


ness, Weed, Marshall, Dunlap, Quigg, 
Beach, Byrne, Tierney, Angell, Blauvelt, 

F. L. Y’^oiing, Brackett, Reeves, Aiken, 
Clinton, Cobb, Schurman, Wickersham, 

J. G. Saxe, Parsons, J. L. O’Brian, Leary, 
Landreth, Meigs, Austin, Lindsay, Grifiin, 

Rhees, Olcott.1437, 1527 

Com. of the Whole reported progress.1470 

Com, of the Whole reported. To third 

reading .1527 

Motion to amend.2382 

Amended . 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3035-3036 

Amended .3505 

Debate on 3d rdg., amended.3542-3557 

Those who spoke were: A. E. Smith, Clin¬ 
ton, M. J. O’Brien, Dow, Marshall, 
Whipple, Westwood, Austin, Brackett, 

J, G. Saxe. Wickersham, Bunce, Parsons, 
Cobb, Dooling, Quigg. 



































250 


Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


PAGE 

Misprint, correcting .3681-3682 

Amended .3759 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3771 

Final passage .3808-3816 

(See Document No. 28.) 


No. 718. By COMMITTEE ON .lUDICTARY.— 
Amending article 6 generally relative to the judi¬ 
ciary. It requires the legislature to enact a brief 
and simple civil practice act and to adopt a sepa¬ 
rate body of civil practice rules and at intervals 
of not less than five years to appoint a commis¬ 
sion to report what changes, if any, should be 
made in such rules; increasing the permanent 
court of appeals from seven to ten members and 
providing for the balling in of not less than four 
nor more than six supreme court justices in order 
that the court may divide itself into two parts 
until the calendar has been reduced to 100 cases 
and in any event not later than December 31, 
1917; limiting the jurisdiction of the court of 
appeals to questions of law only except in crim¬ 
inal cases where the judgment is of death, and 
appeals from judgments of the appellate division 
reversing or modifying a judgment and render¬ 
ing a new judgment on new findings of fact made 
by the appellate division upon the record sent 
up on appeal; provision is made for increasing 
the number of justices of the appellate division 
of the first department from seven to not less 
than ten nor more than twelve and in the second 
department from five to seven. Provision is made 
for two new supreme court justices in the first 
judicial district. The number of justices assign¬ 
able to appellate terms, first and second depart¬ 
ments, is increased from three to five. The court 
of claims is continued, the judges to have au¬ 
thority to take testimony in any case but a ma¬ 
jority of the court to concur in any award. The 
jurisdiction of the court of general sessions of 
New York city is extended throughout the greater 
city, the county courts of Kings, Queens, Rich¬ 
mond and Bronx being abolished and their crim¬ 
inal jurisdiction transferred to general sessions, 
the judges of such courts becoming general ses¬ 
sions judges. The legislature may give Bronx 
county one additional judge. The jurisdiction of 
the city court of New York is extended through¬ 
out the greater city and the limit for which ac¬ 
tion for a money recovery may be brought in the 
court is increased to $3,000. The judges of the 
court elected from each county are to have in the 
county the equity jurisdiction now exercised by the 
county court in such county. Provision is made 
for electing two additional city court judges from 
Kings and one each from Bronx, Queens and 
Richmond. The legislature is empowered to 
establish inferior local courts with territorial 
jurisdiction and children’s courts and domestic 
relations courts. Provision is made authorizing 
the enactment of laws to provide for the Torrens 
Law system of title registration. The office of 
commissioner of jurors may be' established in 
any county by the legislature. Jurisdiction of 
county courts in common-law actions is increased 
from $2,000 to $3,000. The jurisdiction of surro¬ 
gate’s court is continued. The legislature must 
provide for the collection of judicial statistics. 

To Committee of the Whole (G. 0. No. 61). 


Aug. 16. Made special order. 

Aug. 23. Amended. To third reading. 
Aug. 31. Amended. 

!8ei)t. 2. Passed. Ayes 135, Noes 3. 
Printed Nos. 807, 828, 850. 


Ste,nographic record: page 

introduction of.1874 

Judiciary Com. report.1863-1874 

Made Special (h’der .2080 

Printing additional copies.2081 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Wicker- 
sham, Quigg, Olcott, Dunmore, Lincoln, 

Austin, Westwood, Brackett.2357-2379 

. Debate; Those who spoke were — Austin, 
Brackett, Bukan, Buxbaum, Byrne, 


Clearwater, Clinton, Cobb, Coles, Culli- 
nan, Donnelly, Dunmore, Dykman, Griffin, 
Harawitz, Leggett, F. Martin, Marshall, 
Newburger, D Nicoll, M. J. O’Brien, Ol¬ 
cott, Ostrander, Quigg, Root, Sargent, 
Sears, Shipman, A. E. Smith, Stanchfield, 
Steinbrink, Stimson, Tuck, Vanderlyn, 
Wagner, Westwood, Wickersham, Wins¬ 
low, F. L. Young.2384-2487 

Debate: Those who spoke were: Austin, 
Baldwin, Barnes, Bayes, Blauvelt, 
Bockes, Brackett, Buxbaum, Clear¬ 
water, Cobb, Deyo, Dunlap, Franchot, 
Griffin, Hale, Kirby, Latson, Leggett, 
Lincoln, Lindsay, Low, F. Martin, L. M. 
Martin, Marshall, D. Nicoll, Olcott, 
Pelletreau, Quigg, Reeves, Root, Sears, 
Shipman, A. E. Smith, E. N. Smith, 

T. F. Smith, Stanchfield, Steinbrink, 
Stimson, Stowell, Tierney, Unger, Van¬ 
derlyn, Weed, Wickersham, Wood, C. H. 

Young .2491-2573, 2576-2607 

Com. of Whole reported progress.2535, 

2573, 2607 

Limiting debate .2490 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Bockes, 
Cobb, Coles, Deyo, Haffen, Hale, Kirby, 
Latson, Law, F. Martin, L. ]M. Martin, 
Marshall, D. Nicoll, J. S. Phillips, Quigg, 
Sears, E. N. Smith, R. B. Smith, Stein¬ 
brink, Stimson, Stowell, Weed, Wicker¬ 
sham, Wiggins, F. L. Young.2610-2652 

Com. of Whole reported progress.2651 

Quorum, roll calls, etc.2652-2675 

Debate: Those who spoke were—Austin, 
Barnes, Bernstein, Blauvelt, Brackett, 
Buxbaum, Byrne, Clearwater. Coles, 
Deyo, Dunlap, Dunmore, Dykman. Fran¬ 
chot, Frank, Griffin, Hale, Heaton, 
Kirby, Latson, Law, Leggett, Lindsay, 

F. Martin, L. M. Martin, Marshall, 
Mereness, C. Nicoll, D. Nicoll, Nye, J. L. 
O’Brian, M. J. O’Brien, Olcott, Ostrander, 

J. S. Phillips, S. K. Phillips, Qui'T'i', 
Reeves, Root, M. Saxe, Sears, E. N. 
Smith, R. B. Smith, T. F. Smith, Stan- 
dart, Stimson. Stowell, Tierney, Weed, 
Westwood, Wickersham, Wiggins, Wins- 


■ low, F. L. Young.2678-2795 

Com. of Whole rep. To third reading. . . .2795 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3035-3036 

Debate on 3r rdg., amended.3578-3599 


Those who spoke were: Wickersham, CIcm’- 
water. Weed, Bayes, Dykman, D. Nif’oll. 
Marshall, F. Martin, Steinbrink, Latson, 


























Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


251 


PAGE 

Frank, Donnelly, Kichards, D. Kieoll, 

J. (k Saxe, Dahin, Schurman, Leggett, 
Wiggins, Stiinson, Lincoln, Hale, Coles, 
Unger, biinmore, Schurman, Stanchtield, 


J. S. Phillips, Lrackett. 

Revision Com, rep. engrossing.3760 

Final passage, vote.3S16-3S25 


(See Documents Nos. 8, 42, and 43.) 

No. 712. By COMMITTEE ON CITIIIS.— 
Amending article 12 generally by providing for 
home rule for cities. Every city is to have exclus¬ 
ive power to manage, regulate and control its 
property, affairs and municipal government sub¬ 
ject to the Constitution and general laws of the 
State, or laws applying to all cities of the State 
without classification or distinction, and laws ap- 
])lying to a county not wholly within, a city estab¬ 
lishing or affecting the relation between such 
county and a city. This power is to include among 
others (a) the power to organize and manage the 
departments, bureaus or divisions of the city gov¬ 
ernment and to regulate the number, powers, 
duties, terms, compensation and mode of selec¬ 
tion of all city officers and employees, including all 
police and health officers and employees and non¬ 
judicial officers and employees attached to courts 
not of record; and to regulate the compensation 
of employees of counties situated wholly within 
a city with certain exceptions; (b) the power to 
amend its charter or any local or special law 
relating to its property or affairs. In 1917 and 
every eighth year thereafter, unless its charter 
after one’ revision shall otlierwise provide, the 
question of revising the charter is to be sub¬ 
mitted to the electors in each city. The revision, 
if determined upon, is to be '.one by s-^ven com¬ 
missioners, or in New York citv by sixteen com¬ 
missioners, who may be elected at the time the 
question is submitted. Such revision shall he 
submitted to the electors and if approved by the 
electors it is to be presented to the Legislature 
the first week of the following January, and 
unless disapproved by the Legislature prior to 
July first thereafter it is to be law. The legis¬ 
lative body of a city may enact amendments to 
the charter or to any special or local laws affect¬ 
ing the city subject to the approval of the !Mayor, 
and the Board of Estimate, if any, and subject 
in certain cases to the veto power of the Legis¬ 
lature. Laws affecting cities in relation to water 
supplv, sewerage and public improvements, in¬ 
volving the use of territory outside the boundar¬ 
ies of cities, and in relation to the government 
of cities in matters of State concern and applv- 
ing to less than all the cities of the State with¬ 
out classification or distinction are declared to be 
special city laws. 

To Committee of the Whole (G. 0. No. .50). 

Aug. 6. Made Special Order for Aug. 12 and 
Aug. 13. 

Aug. 3 6. Recommitted to Cities Com. 

Aug. 19. Reported amended to Com. of the 
Whole (G. 0. No. 50). 

Aug. 20. Made special order following Tnt. 710. 

Aug. 24. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 25. Amended. (These amendments with 
amendments of Aug. 24 are contained in 
Print No. 830.)* 


Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 120, Noes 17. 
Frinted Nos, 781, 823, 830, 851. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1250 

Minority report .1250 

Made Special Order.1356-1360, 1762 

Copies, additional printing.1436 


Debate- Foley, W'ickersham, Wagner, 
Root, Latson, Parsons, Deyo, M. J. 
O^Brien, Franchot, iMistin, Barnes, Mar¬ 
shall, J. L. O’Brian, p. Martin, Donnelly, 
Schurman, E. N. Sn^ith, D. Nicoll, Lin¬ 
coln . U.1875-1910, 1919-1949 

Quorum, lack of.. 191(P1919, 1949-1955, 1979- 

1980 

Debate: Those who spoke were — D. 

Nichol, Franchot, Low, Marshall, Wagner, 
Wickersham, Parsons, Schurman, E. N. 
Smith, Weed, C. Nicoll, Byrne, Latson, 
Quigg, J. L. O’Brian, R. B. Smith, San¬ 


ders .1958-1998 

Com. of Whole reported progress.1998 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Latson, 


D. Nicoll, Wickersham, E. N. Smith, San¬ 
ders, Low, Weed, M. J. O’Brien, J. L. 
O’Brian, Barrett, Marshall, Hinman, 
Franchot, C. H. Y'oung, Wiggins, Byrne, 
Wagner, Quigg, R. B. Smith, Foley, 
Reeves, Low, Rodenbeck, C. Nicoll, Aus¬ 


tin .2000-2080 

Recommitted.2079-2080 

Reported amended .2487 

Limiting debate .2573-2574 

Made special order .2573 


Debate: Those who spoke were—Aiken, 
Baldwin, Burkan, Dunlap, Franchot, Low, 
Latson, Marshall, €. Nicoll, D. Nicoll, 
J. L. O’Brian, Olcott, Parsons, J. S. Phil¬ 
lips, Quigg, Sanders, Schurman, Sheehan, 
A. E. Smith, R. B. Smith, Steinbrink, 
Unger, Wagner, C. A. Webber, Wicker¬ 


sham, Westwood, Wiggins.2817-2886 

Special order, changing.2816 

Com. of Whole reported progress. ..2848, 2862 

Com. of Whole rep. to third reading.2886 

Amended .3035 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3120 

Debate on 3d rdg. amended.3614-3629 

Those who spoke were. Barnes, Brac¬ 


kett, Dojmelly, Doughty, Franchot, Lat¬ 
son. Low, Newburger. D. Nicoll, J. L. 
O’Brian, Parsons, Quigg, .1. G. Saxe, 
A. E. Smith, Steinbrink, Stimson, Tuck, 
Weed, Wheeler, Wickersham, Wiggins, 


Winslow. 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3760 

Final nassage, vote.382.5-3834 

(See Document No. 36.) 


No. 710. By COMMITTEE ON CANALS.— 
Amending section 8 of article 7 by prohibiting the 
Legislature from selling, leasing or disposing of 
canal terminals heretofore or hereafter con¬ 
structed nor creating any easement in or incum¬ 
brance on the canals or canal terminals. The 
prohibition against the sale, lease or disposition 



























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Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


of canals is stated to apply to those now known 
as the Erie, the Oswego, the Champlain, the 
Cayuga and Seneca, and the Black River canals 
until the Barge canal improvement shall have 
been completed when the prohibition is to apply 
to said terminals, the Blaek River canal, the 
said improved canals, the portions of existing 
canals heretofore reserved for canal purposes 
by statute, the existing inland Erie canal from 
lonawanda creek. Black Rock Harbor and canal 
slips 1 and 2 in Buffalo. The State’s title to 
property heretofore or hereafter appropriated 
for canal purposes is to be deemed to be held by 
the state in fee unless expressly taken for tem¬ 
porary purposes. The Legislature is authorized 
by general laws provide for the leasing of sur¬ 
plus water of the canals or canal feeders under 
conditions which will not interfere with or en¬ 
danger navigation or the use of the canals. 

To Committee of the Whole. (G. 0. No. 
47). 

Aug. 16. Made Special Order following Int. 

686 . 

Aug. 25. Amended. To third reading. (These 
amendments together wltli those of Aug. 
27 are contained in Print No. 839.) 

Aug. 27. Amended. 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 127, Noes 10. 

Printed IS os. 779, 839, 845. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1152 

Canals Committee report.1150-1153 

Made Special Order.2080 

Limiting debate .2573-2574 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Austin, 


Barnes, Clinton, Cobb, Dunmore, Dyk- 
man, TVanchot, Mealy, J. L. O’Brian, 
Rodenbeck, Sears, A. E. Smith, E. N. 
Smith, Tuck, W^estwood, W^ickersham. . . 

2956-2986 

Com. of WTiole, reported progress.2964 

Com. of W^hole rep. To 3d reading. .3030-3031 

Amended .3159-3160 

Amended .3504-3505 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3637 

Debate on 3d rdg. laid aside.3680-3681 

Those who spoke were: Clinton, Wicker- 
sham, V andeiTyn. 

Date on 3d rdg.3841-3853 

Those who spoke were: Clinton, Cobb, Cul- 
linan, Dunmore, Landreth, Lindsay, Me¬ 
reness, J. L. O’Brian, Sears, Wickersham. 

Final passage, vote.3853-3860 

(See Document No. 33.) 


No. 713. By COMMITTEE ON CITIES.— 
Amending section 10, making it sections 10 and 11, 
adding a new section 12 and renumbering present 
sections 11,12,13,14 and 15, of article 8, by pro¬ 
viding that “ The Legislature shall provide for 
the method and limitations under which debts 
mav be contracted by the cities, counties, towns, 
villages and other civil divisions of the 'State 
to the end that such debts shall be payable in 
annual instalments the last of which shall fall 
due and be paid within fifty years after such debt 
shall have been contracted and that no such debt 


shall be contracted for a period longer than the 
probable life of the worx or object for which the 
debt is to be contracted.” It also extends to all 
first-class cities the present provision applicable 
to New York city that debts incurred after Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1904, for water supply purposes shall be 
exempted from the city debt limit. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 52). 

Aug. 16. Amended. 

Aug. 20. Made special order following Int. 712. 

Aug. 25. Amended. To third reading. 


Sept. 1. Amendments offered. Consideration 

postponed to Sept. 2. 

Sept. 2. Amendments adopted. Bill passed. 

Aves, 142. Noes, 0. 

Printed Nos. 7S8, 810, 829, 862. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1436 

Minority report.1437 

Amended .2081 

Made special order .2573 

Limiting debate . 2573-2574 

Debate: Those who spoke were —Austin, 


Barrett, Cullinan, Leggett, Lindsay, Low, 
Marshall, Mereness, Parsons, Sanders, 
Stimson, Tuck, Unger, Wickersham. ...2887- 

2901 

Special order, changed.2816 

Com. of WTiole reported progress.2920 

Amended. Debate: Those who spoke were 
— Low, W'agner, Barrett, Lindsay, Par¬ 
sons, Austin .2953-2955 

Com. of Whole rep., to third reading... . . . .3030 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3120 

Dale on 3d rdg.3638-3640 

Those who spoke were: Austin, R. B. 

Smith, Low, Parsons, Latson. 

Date on 3d rdg.3643-3645 

Those who spoke were: Stimson, J. L. 

O’Brian, Schiirman, Wickersham, R. B. 
Smith, Austin, Deyo. 

Debate on 3d rdg.3834-3840 

Those who spoke are: Austin, Low, J. L. 
O’Brian, Sander,s, R. B. Smith, Stim¬ 
son, WTckersham. 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3912 

Final passage, vote.3919-3926 


No. 719. By FINANCE COMMITTEE.—Amend¬ 
ing section 20 of article 3, by providing that no 
public moneys or property shall be appropriated 
for the construction or improvement of any build¬ 
ing, bridge, highway, dike, canal, feeder, waterway 
or other work until plans and estimates of the cost 
of such work shall have been filed with the Secre¬ 
tary of State by the Superintendent of Public 
Works, together with a certificate by him as to 
whether or not in his judgment the general inter¬ 
ests of the State then require that such improve¬ 
ment be made at State expense. This provision 
shall not apply to the contribution of the State 
to the cost of eliminating grade crossings or to 
items in the budget for the construction of high¬ 
ways from the proceeds of bonds authorized under 
section 4 of article 7. 




























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253 


To Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 62). 

Aug. 20. Made special order following Int. 706. 


Aug. 25. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 146, Noes 2. 

Printed Nos. 815, 854. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .2238 

Made special order .2573 

Limiting debate .2573-2574 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Bar¬ 


rett, Blauvelt, Clinton, Cullinan, Mar¬ 
shall, J. S. Phillips, Root, A. E. Smith, 
E. N. Smith, R. B. Smith, Stimson, 
Wagner, C. A. Webber, Wickersham, 


F. L. Young.3013-3030 

Com. of Whole rep. To third reading.... 3030 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.3120 

Debate on 3d rdg. Amended.3684-3687 

Those Avho spoke were: Stimson, Hinman 
and Blauvelt. 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3863 

Final passage, vote.3926-3934 

(See Document No. 44.) 


No. 715. By FUTURE AMENDMENTS COM. 
— Amending sections 1, 2 and 3, renumbering 
section 3 to be section 4 and adding new sec¬ 
tion 3 to article 14 by providing that when a pro¬ 
posed constitutional amendment is submitted to 
the electors a majority of those voting on the 
proposition shall be sufficient to ratify the amend¬ 
ment. It also piovides that the validity of an 
election upon any proposed amendment or upon 
the question of calling a constitutional conven¬ 
tion may be contested by any elector in an equity 
action brought against the secretary of state in 
the supreme court within three months after such 
election. The question of holding a constitutional 
convention must be submitted at each general 
election following the lapse of 20 years since the 
last previous submission of the question and at 
such other general elections as the legislature 
may provide. The woman suffrage amendment to 
be submitted to the voters this fall is to be deemed 
a part of section 2 if approved by the electors. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. O. No. 57). 

Aug. 25. Made Special Order. 

Aug. 27. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 1. Amended. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 145, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 795, 838, 855. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1668 

Made Special Order....3033-30^4 

Debate: Those who spoke were — Austin, 
Barnes, Brackett, Cobb, Donnelly, 
Doughty, Dunmore, Heaton, Hinman, 
Low, Marshall, D. Nicoll, Ostrander, Par¬ 
sons, J. G. Saxe, A. E. Smith, Wagner, 

Wickersham . .... 3133-3150 

Limiting debate . 3125—3126 

Com. of Whole reported progress.3150 

Debate limited .3160, 3168-3169 

Debate: Those who spoke were—Austin, 
Barnes, Byrne, Cobb, Donnelly, Doughty, 
Dunmore, Foley. Franchot, Green, Griffin, 
Hinman, Low, Marshall, D. Nicoll, J. L. 


PAGE 

O’Brian, Ostrander, Parsons, Quigg, J. G. 
Saxe, M. Saxe, Schurnian, Sharpe, A. E. 
Smith, Wagner, Wickersham, F. L. 

Young .3160—3194 

Debate limited.3160, 3168-3169 

Com. of Whole reported progress.3169 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d reading.3194 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3467 

Debate on 3d rdg. Amended.3687-3700 

Those who spoke were: . Schurman, Barnes, 

D. Nicoll, Green, J. L. O’Brian, Quigg, 
Wickersham, Franchot, Betts, Westwood, 
Parsons, Dunmore, Deyo, Bernstein, 
Heaton, Bayes, Doughty, Hinman. 


Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3863 

Final passage, vote.3934-3941 


No. 716. By GOVERNOR AND OTHER 
STATE OFFICERS COM.—Repealing sections 1, 
2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of article 5 and adding a new 
article 5 reorganizing all the civil departments 
of the state government. There is to be a de¬ 
partment of law', headed by the attorney-general; 
a department of finance, headed by the comp¬ 
troller; a department of accounts, headed by a 
commissioner of accounts; a department of the 
treasury headed by the state treasurer; a depart¬ 
ment of taxation headed by the state tax commis¬ 
sion; a department of state headed by the secre¬ 
tary of state; a department of public w'orks 
headed by the superintendent of public works; a 
department of health headed by the commissioner 
of health; a department of agriculture headed by 
the commissioner of agriculture; a department of 
charities and corrections headed by the secretary 
of charities and corrections; a department of 
banking headed by the superintendent of banks; 
a department of insurance headed by the superin¬ 
tendent of insurance; a department of labor 
and industries administered by an industrial com¬ 
mission or commissioner; a department of educa¬ 
tion, administered by the state university; a de¬ 
partment of public utilities to consist of two pub¬ 
lic service commissions, the existing commissions 
continuing wdth their present jurisdiction and 
powers until the legislature otherwise provides; a 
department of conservation under the direction of 
the conservation commission, and a department 
of civil service W'ith three commissioners. The 
attorney-general and the comptroller are to be 
elected at the same time and for the same terms 
as the gov'ernor. The heads of all other depart¬ 
ments. except the department of education are to 
’oe appointed by the governor. The legislature is 
to provide for the appropriate assignment of all 
the civil administrative and executive functions 
of the state government to the several departments 
provided for. No new department may be created 
by the legislature. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. O. No. 59). 

Aug. 25. Amended. Made Special Order for 
Aug. 30. 

Aug. 26. Vote by wdiich bill w'as made Special 
Order for Aug. 30 reconsidered and bill 
made Special Order for Aug. 27. 

Aug. 30. Amended. To third reading. 

Aug. 31. Revision Com. reported recommend¬ 
ing amendments. Report tabled. (Bill 






























254 


Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


orderd reprinted with proposed amendment 
for information of members.) 

Sept. 1. Revision Com. report taken from 
table. Amendments adopted. 

Sept. 2. Amended. Passed. Ayes 125, Noes 
'30. 

Printed Nos. 803, 831, 843, 863., 


Note: To take the place of Int 85, by Mr. 
E. N. Smith; Int. 110, by Mr. Brookes; int. Ill, 
by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 125, by Mr. C. Nicoll; 
Int. 172, by Mr. Bernstein; Int. 179, by Mr. L. 
M. Martin; Int. 186, by Mr. Lincoln; Int. 222, 
by Mr. Pelletreau; Int. 293, by Mr. Leggett; Int. 
300, by Mr. Dunlap; Int. 404, by Mr. Latson; 

Int. 418, by Mr. Wadsworth; Int. 436, by Mr. 

R. B. Smith; Int. 472, by Mr. Deyo; Int. 498, by 
Mr. J. G. Saxe; Int. No. 540, by Mr. J. G. Saxe; 
Int. 552, by Mr. Eisner; Int. 635, by Mr. Don¬ 
nelly; Int. 668, by Mr. Brackett; Int. 694, by 
Mr. J. G. Saxe. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1735 

Committee report . 1734-1735 

Minority reports .1734-1736, 1763 

Consideration, time of . ..2081 

Amending .3032 

Made Special Order.•.3033-3035 

Special Order, changing: Those who spoke 
were — J. S. Phillips, Quigg, Wicker- 
sham, Brackett, Tanner, D. Nicoll, 01- 
cott, J. L. O’Brian, j. G. Saxe, Parsons, 
Cullinan, Root, Wadsworth.. 3039, 3061-3069 
Debate: Those who spoke were — Betts, 

Bockes, Brackett, Cullinan, Green, Os¬ 
trander, Quigg, Rhees, Schurman, A. E. 
Smith, Stanchfield, Stimson, Tanner, 
Unger, Wadsworth, Wagner, Wickersham, 

Wiggins .3204-3268 

Com. of Whole reported progress.3268 

Debate.3284-3323 

Those who spoke were: Baldwin, Barnes, 
Brackett, Byrne, Dykman, Eisner, Green, 

Low, J. L. O’Brian, Ostrander, Parsons, 

J. G. Saxe, Schurman, Stanchfield, Stein- 
brink, Wickersham, Wiggins. 

Com. of Whole reported progress.3324 

Limiting debate .3335,3364 

Debate .3336-3363,3372-3496 

Those who spoke were: Austin, Barnes, 
Bayes, Bell, Bernstein, Betts, Blauvelt, 
Bockes, Brackett, Bunce, Burkan, Bux- 
baum, Byrne, Clinton, Cobb, Coles, Culli-. 
nan, Curran, Deyo, Dooling, Doughty, 
Dunlap, Dunmore, Dykma», Eisner, 
Foley, Hinman, Landreth, Latson, Low, 
Marshall, C. Nicoll, D. Nicoll, J. L. 
O’Brian, O’Connor, Olcott, Ostrander, 
Parsons, J. S. Phillips, Quigg, Rhees, 
Root, Ryan, J. G. Saxe, Schurman, Shee¬ 
han, Shipman, A. E. Smith, R. B. Smith, 

T. F. Smith, Stanchfield, Steinbrink, 
Stimson, Stowell, Tanner, Tierney, Tuck, 
Linger, Vanderlyn, Wadsworth, Wagner, 

C. A. Webber, Westwood, Wickersham, 
Wiggins, F. L. Young. 

Com. of Whole reported progress. .. .3439, 3466 

Com. of Whole rep. to 3d rdg..3496 

Amended .3533 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3761 

Debate on 3d rdg. Amended.3860-3862 


PAGE 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3912 

Final passage, vote.3941.3959 


(See Documents Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, 40, 41 
'and 50.) 


No. 721. By COUNTY, TOWN AND VILLAGE 
GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 26 and 27 of article 3, and section 2 of 
article 10, by providing that the Legislature may 
by general laws establish difterent forms of county 
government from the present government by a 
board of supervisors, for counties not wholly 
within a city, such form of government to be 
effective in any county only when approved by the 
electors thereof in such manner as the Legislature 
may prescribe. No local or special law relating to 
a county or counties not wholly within a city shall 
be enacted except upon request, by resolution of 
the governing body of the county or counties. The 
Legislature may confer upon any county ofiicer or 
officers any of the powers and duties now exercised 
by the towns or town officers in any county rela¬ 
tive to highways, public safety and the care of 
the poor. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. 0; No. 65). ' 

Sept. 1. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 2. Passed. Ayes 128, Noes 11. 

Printed Nos. 822, 853. 

(To take the place of: Int. 12, by Mr. C. H. 
Young; Int. 115, by Mr. Kirby; Int. 178, by 
Mr. L. M. Martin; Int. 202, by JNIr. Barrett; 
Int. 288, by Mr. R. B. Smith; Int. 313, by 
Mr. Low; Int. 314, by Mr. Wiggins; Int. 455, 
by Mr. Baldwin; Int. 462, by Mr. Barrett; 
Int. 511, by Mr. E. N. Smith; Int. 523, by 
Mr. Coles; Int. 524, by Mr. Coles; Int. 553, 
by Mr. Eisner; Int. 634, by Mr. Donnelly; 
Int. 650, by Mr. Cobb; Int. 655, by Mr. Green; 
Int. 678, by Mr. Dunmore.) 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .2383 

Made special order.3599 

Debate .3718-3743 


Those who spoke were: Barrett, Bernstein, 
Brackett, Coles, Foley, Latson, Law, Lin¬ 
coln, Lindsay, Low, L. M. Martin, 
Marshall, J. L. O’Brian, Parmenter, 
Quigg, Sanders, R. B. Smith, Stimson, 
Wagner, C. A. Webber, Wickersham, F. 


L. Young. 

Com. of Whole rep. progress.3733 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d rdg.3759 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing...3863 

Debate on 3d rdg.3959-3962 

Those who spoke were: Barrett, Coles, 

Low, Rosch, F. L. Young. 

Final passage, vote.3962-3970 


No. 696. Bv LEGISLATIVE POWERS COM¬ 
MITTEE.—mending generally article 3, by abol¬ 
ishing the executive emergency message, and pro¬ 
viding that thv> legislature shall not audit or 
allow any private claim against the state or any 
civil division thereof but may appropriate money 
to pay such claims against the state as shall have 
been audited and allowed according to law. It 
abolishes the provision of section 25 requiring 
three-fifths as a quorum of the legislature for 
































Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


255 


certain purposes. The legislature shall not pass 
any private or local bill granting to any corpora¬ 
tion, association or individual the right to prove 
ai claim against the State or any civil division 
thereof or authorizing any civil division to allow 
any claim. 

To Legislative Powers Com. 

July 20. Amended and recommitted. 

Aug. 5. Reported to Com. of the Whole (G. 
0. No. 51). 

Aug. 25. Amended. 

Aug. 31. ]\[ade special order. 

Sept. 1. Amended, To third reading. 

Sept. 2. Amended in revision. Passed. Ayes 
123, Noes 0. 

Printed Nos. 737, 770, 833, 859, 861. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of . 740 

Amended . 976 

Reported .1251 

Amended .2922 

Made special order.3599 

Debate .3743-3758 


Those who spoke were: Austin, Barnes, 
Deyo, Doughty, Leggett, Lincoln, Lind¬ 
say, L. M. ^lartin, Marshall, Olcott, Par¬ 
sons. Quigg, Root, J. G. Saxe, A. E. 
Smith, R. B. Smith, Westwood, Wicker- 


sham. 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d rdg.3759 

Com. of Wliole rep., disagree.3759-3771 


Those who spoke were: Barnes, Deyo, 
Eisner, Hinman, Marshall, Olcott, Par¬ 
sons. J. S. Phillips, Quigg, Sheehan, A. E. 
Smith, R. B. Smith, Wagner. 


Amended .3762-3771 

Amended in revision.3863 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3912 

Final passage, vote.3970-3977 


No. 407. By Mr. PARSONS.— Adding a new 
section to article 3, reading: “The Legislature 
shall have the power to regulate or prohibit 
manufacturing in tenement houses.” 

To Industrial Interests Com. Also to Legis¬ 
lative Powers Com. for its opinion. 

July 26. Reported to Com, of the Whole 
(G. 0. No. 37). 

Sept. 1. ;Made Special Order. 

Sept. 2. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 3. Passed. Ayes 98, Noes 46. 

Printed Nos. 419, 864. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. ..315-316 

Reported. 899 

Minority report . 979 

Made Special Order.3709 

Debate .3873-3890 


Those who spoke were: Barnes, Buxbaum, 
Clearwater, Coles, Cullinan, Dahm, Dun¬ 
lap, Dunmore, Leggett, ]\[arshall, Meigs, 
D. Nicoll, Parmenter, Parsons, A. E. 
Smith, Stimson, LTiger, Wagner, Wicker- 


sham. 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d rdg.3911 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3977 

Debate, on 3d rdg.4116-4131 


PAGE 

Those who spoke wer: Barnes, Betts, 
Byrne, Dick, Dooling, Dunlap, Heaton, 
Marshall, Meigs, Mereness, Parsons, Sar¬ 
gent, Schurman, A. E. Smith, Wagner. 

Final passage, vote.4131-4141. 

(See Documents Nos. 24 and 31.) 


No. 714. By COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL 
INTERESTS.—Amending sections 18 and 19 of 
article 1, by including occupational diseases 
among the subjects of compensation to workman. 
It authorizes the Legislature to enact laws “ for 
the protection of the lives, health, or safety of 
employees; or for the payment, either by em¬ 
ployers or by employers and employees or otlier- 
wise, either "directly or through a State or other 
system of insurance or otherwise of compensation 
for injuries to or occupational diseases of em¬ 
ployees or for death of employees resulting from 
such injuries or disease without regard to fault 
as a cause thereof, except where the injury is 
occasioned by the wilful intention of the injured 
employee, to bring about the injury or death of 
himself or of another, or where the injury results 
solely from the intoxication of the injured em¬ 
ployee while on duty; or for the adjustment, de¬ 
termination and settlement, with or without trial 
by jury, of issues which may arise under such 
legislation; or providing that the right to such 
compensation, and the remedy therefor shall be 
exclusive of all other rights and remedies for 
such injuries or diseases or death. But all 
moneys paid by an employer by reason of the 
enactment of any of the laws herein autliorized, 
shall be deemed a part of the cost of operating 
the business of the employer.” 

To Com. of the Whole (G. O. No. 53). 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. 

Sept. 2. Amended. To third reading. 

Sept. 3. Passed. Ayes , 125, Noes 17. 

Printed Nos. 792, 865. 

(Note.— This is to take the place of Int. 23, 
by Mr. Aiken; Int. 376, by Mr. Foley; Int. 554, 
by Mr. Eisner.) 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .1470 

]\Iade Special Order...3709 

Debate .3890-3904 

Those who spoke were: Aiken, Barms, 
Byrne, Clearwater, Curran, Dykman, 
Eisner, Foley, Green, Olcott, Parmenter, 
Parsons, Sheehan, Wickersliam, F. L> 
Young. 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d rdg. ^ . . .. 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing. 

Final passage, vote.4141- 

(See Document No. 38.) 


No. 725. Bv COMMITTEE ON GOVD 
AND other" state OFFICERS.—Re 
section 5 of article 5 and adding a new 
providing that the lieutenant-governor, 
of the assembly, secretary of state, { 
general, comptroller, treasurer and super 
of public works shall constitute tlie ea 
































256 


Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


and be the commissioners of the land office and 
the commissioners of the canal fund. 

To Committee of the Whole. 

Sept. 3. To third reading. Passed. Ayes 129, 
Noes 0. 

Sept. 10. Convention determines' that this 
proposition should be submitted separately to 


the electors. 

Printed No. 857. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .3761 

Made special order.3990 

Debate.4051-4053 

Those who spoke were: Rhees, Harawitz, 
Clinton, Stimson. 

Com. of Whole rep. Tto 3d rdg.4090 

Revision Com. rep.4098 

Final passage, vote.4149-4156 


No. 702. By COMMITTEE ON GOVERNOR 
OTHER STATE OFFICERS.—Amending sec¬ 
tions 1 and 4 of article 4 by increasing the salary 
of the Governor from $10,000 to $20,000 a year, 
the increase to take effect January 1, 1917. 

To the Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 26). 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. Amended. To 
third reading. 

Sept. 3. Amended (twice). 

Sept. 4. Passed. Aves 134, Noes 5. 

Printed Nos. 755, 858, 866, 868. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of. 866 

Statement by Mr. Cullinan.866-868 

Made special order.3709 

Debate .3772-3791 


Those who spoke were: Austin, Baldwin, 
Barnes, Blauvelt, Brackett, Buxbaum, 
Clinton, Coles, Doughty, Dykman, Foley, 
Griffin, Latson, J. S. Phillips, Quigg, 
Rhees, Schurman, R. B. Smith, Stein- 
brink, Stimfion, Unger, W’adsworth, West- 


wood, Wickersham, * Wiggins. 

Debate on 3d rdg. 3804 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.3863 

Amended .4050-4051 

Debate.4050-4053 

Revision Com. rep. engrossed.4098 

Debate on 3d rdg. amended.4099-4101 

Those who spoke were: Wickersham, 
Qifigg, Bunce, J. S. Phillips, Harawitz. 

Rev'ision com. rep., engrossing.4173 

Fin^l passage, vote.4173-4181 

722. By COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE 


ANIZATION.—Amending section 2, 3, 4, 5 
8 and repealing section 7, of article 3, and 
sferring the provisions of section 6 of article 
1 article 3, relative to reapportionment. The 
te and Assembly districts are to remain as 
resent until altered by the legislature. Such 
ition shall be made at the first regular ses- 
of the legislature after the return of the 
enumeration taken in 1915. Subsequent 
wtionments are to be made at the regular 
of the Legislature in the year after each 
census. The method of determining the 
of Assemblymen remains as at present, 
inty entitled to more than one member 
1 of supervisors or similar body and in 
bracing one or more counties having no 


board of supervisors the members elected from 
each county to the board of aldermen or similar 
body shall divide the counties into Assembly dis¬ 
tricts. The provisions of section 7, relative to 
the qualifications of legislators are stricken out. 
The provision that the legislature may abolish 
Hamilton county and annex the territory to 
some other county or counties is stricken out. 
To Com. of the Whole. (G. 0. No. 67.) 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. 

Sept. 3. Amended. To 3d reading. Amended, 
Sept. 4. Passed. Ayes 103, Noes 43. 

Sept. 10. Convention determines that this 
proposition should be submitted separaely to 


the electors. 

Printed Nos. 836, 867, 869. 

Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .3119 

Minority report. 3283 

Made special order.3709 

Debate .3904-3911 

Those who spoke were: Brackett, Fran- 
chot, Haffen, Marshall, Quigg, E. N. 
Smith, Wagner, Wickersham, Wiggins. 

Com. of Whole reported progress.3911 

Debate .3991-4034 


Those who spoke were: Baldwin, Barnes, 
Bernstein, Betts, Brackett, Buxbaum, 
Byrne, Clinton, Coles, Deyo, Doughty, 
Foley, Franchot, Haffen, Lincoln, F. 
Martin, Marshall, Mereness, D. Nicoll, 
J. L. O’Brian, M. J. O’Brien, Parsons, 
Quigg, Root, J. G. Saxe, M. Saxe, Sehur- 
man, Shari>e, Sheehan, A. E. Smith, 
R. B. Smith, Steinbrink, Stimson, Unger, 


Wagner, Weshvood, Wickersham, Wig¬ 
gins. 

Com. of whole reported progress.4011 

Com. of Whole rep., vote. To 3d rdg.4034-4041 

Revision Com. rep.4115-4116 

Amended .4119-4121 

Revision Com. rep., engrossing.4173 

Final passage vote...4181-4192 

(See Document No. 46.) 


No. 720. By BILL OF RIGHTS COMMITTEE. 
—Amending sections 6 and 7 of article 1, by pro¬ 
viding that a person charged with a felony punish¬ 
able by not exceeding five years’ imprisonment 
or with an indictable misdemeanor may after 
examination or commitment by a magistrate 
waive the right to indictment and jury trial, sub¬ 
sequent proceeding being had by information be¬ 
fore a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or 
a judge thereof; providing that in any criminal 
case a person shall have a right to at least one 
appeal; providing that no person shall be denied 
the equal protection of the law’s; providing that 
where private property is taken for public use 
condemnation proceedings shall be conducted by 
the Supreme Court without a jury or, in New 
York city, by one or more Supreme Court com¬ 
missioners, and elsewhere by not less than three 
commissioners appointed by a court of record. 
Where the proceedings are"^ instituted by a civil 
division of the State, the compensation is to be 
paid before taking the propertv. except that the 
Supreme Court may otherwise direct where public 
necessity requires it. The Legislature mav au- 


































Proposed Amendments Adopted by Convention 


257 


thorize cities, for the establishment of a uniform 
system of streets, to take real property within 
an abandoned street or highway and to sell and 
lease it. 

To Com. of the Whole (G. 0. No. 63). 

Aug. 31. Amended. 

Sept. 1. Made Special Order. 

Sept. 4. Amended. To third reading. Passed. 

Ayes 130, Noes 3. 

. Printed Nos. 816, 849, 870. 


Stenographic Record: page 

Introduction of .2238 

Amended .3637-3638 

Made Special Order.3641-3642 

Minority report . 3642 

Made Special Order.3709 

Debate .4053-4090 


Those who spoke were: Angell, Baldwin, 
Bayes, Bell, Betts, Brackett, Brenner, 
Byrne, Clearwater, Clinton, Cullinan, 
Dahm, Dykman, Eisner, Gladding, Hara- 
witz, Latson, Marshall, D. Nicoll, M. J. 
O’Brien, Reeves, J. G. Saxe, M. Saxe, 
Schurman, Steinbrink, Tuck, Unger, Wag¬ 
ner, C. A. Webber, Wicker sham, Wiggins, 
Wiinslow. 

Com. of Whole reported progress.4090 

Debate .4192-4220, 4238-^260 

Those who spoke were: Aiken, Baldwin, 
Barnes, Blauvelt, Betts, Brackett, Bren¬ 
ner, Byrne, Clearwater, Clinton, Cobb, 
Coles, Cullinan, Dahm, Deyo, Donnelly, 
Dooling, Dunmore, Dykman, Eisner, 
Foley, Gladding, Harawitz, Landreth, 


PAGE 

Latson, Leggett, Mann, F. Martin, Mar¬ 
shall, C. Nicoll, J. L. O’Brian, M. J. 
O’Brien, Olcott, Parsons, Potter, Quigg, 
Reeves, Sanders, Schurman, Sheehan, 

E. N. Smith, R. B. Smith, ^ Steinbrink, 
Stowell, Unger, Wagner, C.'A. Webber, 
Weed, Westwood, Wicker sham, Wiggins, 


Winslow. 

Debate, time extended.4237-4238 

Com. of Whole rep. To 3d rdg.4266-4267 

Revision Com. rep. engrossing.4286 

Final passage, vote.4287-4295 

(See Document No. 48.) 


CONSTITUTION AS FINALLY ADOPTED. 

By REVISION COMMITTEE.— The final draft 
of the Constitution prepared by/ the Revision 
Committee and adopted by the Convention con¬ 
sists of the present Constitution with the various 
amendments adopted by the Convention inserted 
therein, together with such changes as were 
necessary to incorporate the amendments adopted 
by the Convention, and certain alterations to 
make the language more uniform and consistent 
and certain changes in punctuation. 

Sept. 9. Reported by Revision Com. 

Sept. 10. Passed. Ayes 118, Noes 33. To be 
submitted as a whole except the tax article (Int. 
679), and the reapprotionment article (Int. 722), 
which are each to be separately submitted. 

Printed as Document No. 52. ' 




















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